Detroit is a mess, but the gap between it and Ukraine is not remotely comparable to that between Iraq and Oklahoma. And obviously single examples are not repre

Detroit is a mess, but the gap between it and Ukraine is not remotely comparable to that between Iraq and Oklahoma. And obviously single examples are not representative of the whole, but they're far more useful than GP's blanket assertion which is based on nothing other than, I suspect, the fact that it's currently edgy/fashionable to whinge about all the "free" things Europeans get that Americans don't.