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.
If they feel this way, they should pull out of NATO.
Foreign interventionism, unchecked immigration, and Socialism ruined Great Britain.
Next on the list....
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.
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 (d)o Sinn Féin’s bidding afterwards. …Nobody made Britain do any of that. Her own Prime Ministers embraced such policies of their own will.
The Brits should pull out of the EU and UN. The US didn’t destroy thrir “empire”, they pulled dissolved it. And Ba rack Hussein Obama, an enemy of western civilization, dosen’t speak for most Americans.
Oh, for crying out loud.
Obama is a jackass.
If it took Hitchens seven and a half years to figure that out, then he is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is.
There is good and there is evil. There is a bit of conflict here in that what is good to one man may be evil to another. What is considered evil now may once have been good and vice versa and which-is-which also is in the eye of the beholder. What happened in the past has molded the present and we can do nothing about it. What we can do is what we perceive as good today. We must note that the future my consider us wrong, or at least some portion of that future will consider what we do today as evil. If the portion that considers our good of today wrong is Muslim, I’m okay with that. Islam is the problem we face today. If we do what I consider good, then the future may lament its passing, but they too will be wrong. I’m okay with that as well.
Pete. The usurper is on the way out. Loosen up dude.
The British should do what they think best for their country. I wish them well. Obama doesn’t speak for me.
Do not confuse America with the errors of the Obama administration or the Bush administration. Americans await the election of a real American president again. There has not been one since Reagan.
> Washington came close to scuppering our recapture of the Falklands in 1982.
We provided scads of logistical and intelligence support. Plenty of stories attesting to this over the years.
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 ought to make us gasp.
The House of Bush and the house of Saud stand because of this "special" relationship. Yes, before fracking we needed the oil, but it is time for this relationship against the People of the U.S. to come to an end. It is time for the U.S. to stop defending one of the most backward authoritarian regimes in the world.
And the British Empire was not all bad. Where the empire went so went one of the greatest of all human institutions, the British common law. It even came here and undergirds our Constitution and Bill of Rights. A lot of the lack of resistance to the British Empire was because the common law provided far improved justice in regions formerly ruled by corrupt and arbitrary dictators. Mohatma Ghandi and Nelson Mandela lived, survived, and ultimately prevailed in their views because of British common law.