The article neglects to point out that the US claims a higher standard to those against which it is being compared unfavourably.
Hardly surprising then that when it fails to achieve the standards most people would determine to be acceptable that it receives a higher level of criticism. I feel certain that those countries who fail, by an even greater margin, to reach acceptable standards would be just a severely criticised if they claimed the same high standards in the first place.
In addition, by being in the position of the most powerful country on Earth, failure to meet what are generally regarded as acceptable standards implies an abuse of that power, with the attendant extra criticism that attaches.
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