American Jingoism - The current

American Jingoism - The current conflict has shown us a great example of blinkered American jingoism.

No, not from the government, or most of your average Americans, but from the media.

How many of you knew from the American media that special forces from Australia, Britain, Germany, Canada and Norway are fighting by the side of American troops in Afghanistan? Amid the publicity over the deaths of eight Americans last week, now many of you knew that an Australian Special Air Service trooper had died in action? (The SAS is the British, Australian and New Zealand equivalent of Delta Force). Or amid the furor over John the Taliban Walker, that three Australians had been captured after fighting for Al Quaeda?

It's a big world out there. And while we are bearing the lion's share of this action, we're not the only ones.