text: I think you're taking far too much offence at what is effectively little more than a throwaway line, tying the fact that our law enforcement agencies are doing very little compared to the Americans to actually investigate the corruption and fraud committed by SAP, to the little we did compared to the Americans in the war.
  
  And I am not at all denigrating the sacrifices of our troops, nor the fact that we were one of the first Commonwealth nations to join Britain in its declaration of war on Germany (within 48 hours, I believe), but our contribution WAS minimal in comparison - the US suffered over 40 000 casualties just in the three weeks of the Ardennes Offensive, and more than 400 000 dead during the course of the war.
  
  It does make our 11 000 dead seem pretty small by comparison.
  
  That said, however, I know for a fact the people of Ethiopia would wholeheartedly agree with you, since it was our troops that liberated their nation from the Italians!