To have Superman merely fight for the American Way is bullcrap anyway - as in, not in line with the spirit of modern Superman comics - and it sounds aggressively imperialistic. Superman is a world figure, and the scope of his comics, while they may be based in the fictional U.S. city of Metropolis, go beyond even the world - interplanetary. They didn't even use the line in Superman II, so why does it matter? Not to mention the fact that we are talking about a Perry White quote - Perry White would say something dismissive like that, even about his own country - he's a newspaper editor...