Oli, there's nothing whatsoever to suggest that Vito was a "patriot" or "believed in America" as Bonasera stated right at the beginning. I think his attitude toward the US wasn't so much contempt as it was cynicism and skepticism about the hypocrisy that the politicians he bribed evinced through their sanctimony and "American values." I don't think he loathed Amerioca. I think that, to Vito, America was no different in operation than Sicily, just bigger and richer.

That's a long way of saying that I basically agree with you.