I guess I read it that way because merely stating "The same sorts of things happen. (severity unspecified)" is pretty pointless when the severity and its effects on doing business are the only really relevant thing that matters in this conversation?
I think it's plenty relevant that the US has the same kinds of flaws in its system, and that the differences are really differences in degree and not kind. (As large as those differences in degree might be in certain places.) I think that's a very important bit of perspective.
