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Ok dim bulb, try to keep up. In the Civil war the Brits sold all the Enfield rifles they could to the south. And remember the blockade runners,,, their main goal was trade with England.
England did all it could without crossing a line that would get them into a war.

As for the Lusitania, no, the Germans sunk it. It was bringing munitions to England from New York. The Germans took out a full page ad in the NYT saying it was a war cargo and would be sunk. They told people to not sail on it.
The point you miss is that England reserved the same right the Germans did. England openly threatened American shipping, neutral country shipping, with the sinking or capture if ANY cargo was sent from the USA to Germany.

And no, no special relationship is good for us. Washington explicitly said that a special relationship, leads to treating others unfairly.

It isn’t “Obama” to not be a British cheerleader.

Wow, all the liberal propaganda one can stand. Complete with typical liberal invective.

The majority of Britain’s trade was with the Union; blockade running was no evidence of open trade with the South, but Britain’s general aversion to it, because there were other locations and means to evade the blockades.

Believing German propaganda in the NYT? When in a hole, stop digging. It took Wilson two years to avenge the Lusitania, and that was after a re-election campaign with “He Kept Us Out Of War” as the slogan—a shameful reflection upon a USA that George Washington admonished must be “at all times ready for war”.

Obama’s already proven that “no special relationship” is not good for us, especially when he replaces it with a tenuous alliance with the Israel-hating European Union. Supporting the special relationship is not necessarily being a “British cheerleader”, whatever that means. Keep sloganeering, by all means.