>>1
I think perhaps you have answered your own question, but as a poor, mislead American, you probably don't understand how, let me guide you through it.
First up there's the 'saved your ass... or beat your ass' statement. Who's ass did you save? I'm not too sure, perhaps you are refering to the quaint Yankee notion that you guys 'won' world war II when in actually it was the Russians that did most of the ground work, the best America did was pop up near the end, wander through the lightly defended Western front and then claim victory in the subsequent decades of anti-soviet propoganda. And who's ass did you beat? As I already pointed out, when Hitler took his own life, it was to the sound of Russian shells falling. Or perhaps you mean Vietnam, the backwards, stone-age tinpot dictatorship you had to pull out of cause you were having your asses handed to you?
Then there's the claim of living in the greatest country in the world, which is far from true. It's a big country, yes, I'll give you that, but skyrocketing crime, plummiting national IQ's, an out of control debt problem (which incidentally means China theoretically owns most of you), a total lack of culture and complete citizen apathy makes it one of the worst developed countries to live in.
No country is perfect, but your American tradition of claiming that, in the face of all odds, you are is somewhat grating. Especially to those countries that are clearly far superior to you.