The discussions about Americans' attidudes being overly nationalistic and "America is always right" (there is a lot of truth in what John wrote!) reminds me of an article I read about how difficult is is for Americans to renounce American citizenship. While it is one thing to become a citizen of another country, it seems, it is very, very hard to "un-become" a U.S. citizen, especially for Internal Revenue Service purposes. It seems that Congress has enacted a number of laws to this effect, based on the presumption that no sane American would actually fully, permanently, and completely renounce his or her American citizenship, and that anyone attempting to do so would undoubtedly have a nefarious (ie, tax-evading) purpose for making the attempt. Was in the WSJ, which is very good for its news reporting, if not for its editorial stands. Happy post-Thanksgiving to all. HARRY WYETH
