Posted on 04/24/2016 6:22:49 AM PDT by Nextrush
Now will we grasp that the United States is not our friend, but a foreign country whose interests are often different from ours?
President Obama's blatant intervention in our internal affairs is not a sudden breach of a soppy 'special relationship'. The USA's only real special relationship is with Saudi Arabia, a 70-year old hard pact of oil, money and power, welded together with such cynicism it out to make up gasp.
Barack Obama's open desire for us to stay inside the EU is by no means the first or worst example of White House meddling here in these islands. Bill Clinton forced us to cave to the Provisional IRA in 1998 and his successor, George W. Bush, continued the policy by making us to Sinn Fein's bidding afterwards.
Washington came close to scuppering our recapture of the Falklands in 1982. And with the current state of our Armed Forces, which can nowadays do nothing without American support, I often wonder how the White House and the Pentagon would behave if Argentina once again seized Port Stanley.
If anyone thinks Hillary Clinton is a great friend of Britain, they're in for a big surprise.
But surely the Americans fought with us should to shoulder against the Kaiser and Hitler? Not exactly. The USA (quite rightly) fought for its own interest in both great wars, not for us.
When we ran out of money after the First World War, Washington seized the chance to force us to limit our Navy, and so began to overtake us as the world's major naval power. We had feared Germany would do this. It is one of the great ironies of history that the USA ended British sea power.
In the blackest months of the Second World War, just after the fall of France.....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I might have known Hitchens would have a breakdown over this. For God’s sake, Brits, ignore Obama’s remarks and vote your conscience one way or another.
NO one can "interfere" with a sovereign nation
The opposition was home grown and already there
He sounds rather like a raving lunatic, what?
One of the unfortunate and largely unspoken tragedies of the 20th Century was the dismemberment of the British Empire. It held in check a lot of evil forces that have become problems for the US since the end of the Cold War.
They’ve already decided to commit suicide anyway by allowing those who hate their country to overrun it and replace its population.
“Great” Britain has 4 centuries of disastrous decision making and a legacy of millions dead.
They should be kissing our asses everyday that they still exist as a nation.
One of the unfortunate and largely unspoken tragedies of the 17th 18th and 19th centuries was the existence of the British Empire.
It created many of the evil forces that have become problems for the US since the end of the Cold War.
If they feel this way, they should pull out of NATO.
So are you claiming that the Second Reich ought to have one World War 1?
*one = won
Foreign interventionism, unchecked immigration, and Socialism ruined Great Britain.
Next on the list....
Funny you can’t name any of them.
Don’t put words into my mouth.
However the British empire’s actions during WW1, and at the Paris peace conference helped cement and create the greatest evil in the world today: Saudi Arabia.
The author of the article needs to research the term globalism.
What the HELL, Hitchens??
Just sad, the way you've steadily declined from a lone voice of Brit commonsense into a git off my lawn now where'd I put my haemorrhoid cream applicator contrarian.
The British empire propped up the House of Saud and used them to destroy the Ottomans during WW1.
The House of Saud is the greatest evil in the world today. They would not be a world power without British help, and “Lawrence of Arabia.”
They more then likely would have been killed off, along with the evil of Wahhabism.
What utter nonsense.
You and Hitchens are either side of the same (clipped) coin.
Add to your comment that had Britain not made some very bad decisions all on their own, they would not now be in the position that the must rely on the likes of obummer for support and protection.
Example: Neville Chamberlain was not an American.
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