The guidelines discourage this kind of meta-commentary, and, more importantly, if you just mail hn@ycombinator.com, Dan can go look to see if there's a weird pattern of flags on the story.

If it's helpful: I flag most of these kinds of stories, no matter who the supposed protagonist is; I just think they're not a good fit for the site, and tend to generate truly awful threads. You can of course disagree! But I don't think anyone's going to accuse me of always seeing the US as the bad guy.