Agreed! From the articles that have come out since the recent US-British-French mission in Syria, it went very well. And from the looks of their civilian after action reviews in their media (heh, and very self-critical reviews), both nations will be trying harder to improve their defense capabilities.
Royal Navy’s $1.3bn submarine was locked in a deadly game of ‘hide and seek’ ... (Russian subs)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3647821/posts
Why Britain played second fiddle to France in Syria strikes... (no cruise missile ships)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3648069/posts
Britain really did great. So did France. The mission showed improvements that need to be made by each nation and showed that we can work together.
IMO, the Brexit was a good thing in a big way (cooperation instead of empire). Hope that our new domestic production and trade directions work out economically, too. We no longer have any other logical choice. It may well be a matter of western survival.
:-)
Break for a very pretty Scottish voice.
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCIXI9ubfFs
The same Scottish woman singing a pretty American song.
Camera Obscura - I Love How You Love Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kSutrI8Ack
Just thought the following was interesting. Many Scots look much like the many of the people in the part of the States that I’m from.
Why Scottish People Love America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCGAOrzAgb0
The White House Correspondents Dinner folks would be a lot happier now if, instead of that vile comic, they had as their speaker the cute (and funny) little Scottish lass shown in your last link.