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.
Too many people here attacking Britain and not enough saying ‘enough’ to the relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia.
Do the Saudis have trolls posting here?