I think it fits the US better than most. After all, Churchill DID say we'd do the right thing...eventually. So, it wasn't necessarily a compliment, it just wasn't totally an insult. Not all countries would (or could) get around to doing the right thing. I would assume that it was a quote from relatively early in WW II, where GB really needed US industry. Churchill felt that we'd eventually be there, we'd just take a while to get there. If that's the case, then he was right.