It’s over: MPs say the special relationship with US is dead
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BRITAIN’S special relationship with the US — forged by Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt in the second world war — no longer exists, says a committee of influential MPs.
Instead, America’s relationship with Britain is no more special than with its other main allies, according to a report by the Commons foreign affairs committee published today.
The report also warns that the perception of the UK after the Iraq war as America’s “subservient poodle” has been highly damaging to Britain’s reputation and interests around the world. The MPs conclude that British prime ministers have to learn to be less deferential to US presidents and be “willing to say no” to America.
The report, entitled Global Security: UK-US Relations, says Britain’s relationship with America is “extremely close and valuable” in a number of areas, particularly intelligence co-operation. However, it adds that the use of the phrase special relationship, in its historical sense, “is potentially misleading and we recommend that its use should be avoided”.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7078844.ece
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Now if they manage to get Tony Blair onto the the end of a rope...
We would have a beginning
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BRITAIN’S special relationship with the US — forged by Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt in the second world war — no longer exists, says a committee of influential MPs.
And rightly so: that was a special time in history for both nations, but I don't think the countries' cultural ties, beyond sharing a language etc., are quite close enough to warrant the term 'special relationship' in ordinary times.
Heads should roll
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BRITAIN’S special relationship with the US — forged by Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt in the second world war — no longer exists, says a committee of influential MPs.
And rightly so: that was a special time in history for both nations, but I don't think the countries' cultural ties, beyond sharing a language etc., are quite close enough to warrant the term 'special relationship' in ordinary times.
It doesn't help that it was a relationship only Britain was expected to nurture.
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Now if they manage to get Tony Blair onto the the end of a rope...
We would have a beginning
I didn't know the Tea Party folks were so upset at Tony!
wow.
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It doesn't help that it was a relationship only Britain was expected to nurture.
Check to see if Hell has frozen over. I agree 100% w/ citizen.
Britain deserves better than they've gotten, imo.
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Originally posted by GinoBiffaroni:
Now if they manage to get Tony Blair onto the the end of a rope...
We would have a beginning
I didn't know the Tea Party folks were so upset at Tony!
wow.
Summer Glau can simply walk into Mordor
Bones: "Don't 'rawr' her!"
Booth: "What? she'rawred' me first."
Don't care about teabaggers at all
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Don't care about teabaggers at all
Just applaud the beginning
Now THERE'S the truly hate filled radical zealots the MSM should have been talking about, all along!
The old game of bait and switch might fool some, but far fewer than might have been in years past.
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Hey Rappu.... go fuck yourself
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All I can say is "Huzzah!" This should have happened long ago; their willingness to agree with us and follow us has been almost as bad (or as bad?) as that of the US and Israel, if you make the US the equivalent of the UK and Israel the equivalent of the US.
If all three broke their "special relationships" and treated one another as we treat other countries, the world would be the better for it!
Don't think it's completely true or will hold completely, however. There IS too much of a "special relationship" between us and the UK and Israel and US, and far too long-standing one, that I can imagine it ever being truly broken. Strained, possibly, but the heritages are too closely woven.
As to Dumbya, et. al, behind bars: They HAVEN'T been caught, and that picture will never happen...sadly.
"I'm just right. Kinda like the sun rising in the east and the world being round...its not a need its just the way it is." The Delusional "Hero", 3/1/10
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