No offense but the tone of your post screams 'butthurt'. Leave your national pride and various statistics-based pissing contests out of this (and the sour grapes argument is completely emotion-based and irrelevant). There are many legitimate reasons for non-Americans to avoid the US these days and unpleasant immigration procedures are just one of them. I am for one simply afraid of going there, not knowing what kind of horrible treatment I can expect at the border if I rub some immigration officer the wrong way, and this is coming from a white European. Many of my friends feel the same way. I can only imagine what a Middle Eastern-looking person with a few stamps from 'undesirable' countries in their passport must feel like.