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People must be reading a different piece than I am. Where does the author say we have to do it like Europe does?!

"Amtrak can and should fully replace its senior management with people who know how to run a modern intercity railroads, who are not Americans"

The entirety of the article is a set of comparisons to European countries with 2 references to Japan thrown in.

Which is still not the same as saying we have to do it their way, but that people who have done it successfully might be able to do it again.

I agree that sentence is too strongly worded, but hell it might be entirely correct.

I understood this point, but honestly the author's writing style is fairly combative for a piece that is responding to absolutely no one. Generally when I've said, "We should do x like y, because they do it better" I figured out that people are often off-put by this because it's been used in reductionist ways to avoid having to answer very we-centric problems.

If the reading comprehension ITT is typical of Americans, TFA may well be correct.

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