James Lileks' description of the BBC's snotty attitude for all things American isn't limited to the BBC. Fox News Channel's "sisiter network" Sky News, has some pretty cheeky chaps too, who seem determined to point out that our complaints that torture and execution of POWs is a violation of the Geneva Convention are equivalent to similar claims in the Islamic world about our treatment of terrorists taken to Quantanamo.

I guess I missed the filmed interrogations of these inmates on national television and the televising of the corpses after we tortured and executed them. But I seem to recall that none of these captives from Afghanistan and al Qaeda were in uniform or part of the armed forces of any signatory to the Geneva convention. Call me a nitpicker.