True Conservatism, Anti-Americanism

Since, like, 'Nam, I've loved the anti-Americanism of conservatives: We're a superior nation until foreigners hold us to a higher standard (except for some of those who come here to benefit from our superior wealth).

Alleged liberal Thomas Friedman has today's example:

Dive into a conversation about America in the Arab world today, or even in Europe and Africa, and it won’t take 30 seconds before the words “Abu Ghraib” and “Guantánamo Bay” are thrown at you. Yes, both are shameful, but Abu Ghraib was a day at the beach compared to what Al Qaeda and its Sunni jihadist supporters have been doing in Iraq, yet none of their acts have become one-punch global insults like Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo.

Of course, maybe dising of Osama is also just too obvious to mention....