https://freerepublic.com/tag/russianationalism/ en-us Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:07:48 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879398/posts We've come a long way from the 2003 British lectures about American obtrusive ray-bans and Kevlar losing what British soft hats and smiles had won. That quote about defeat from "a senior U.S. official" about the British withdrawal from southern Iraq is probably accurate, but it belongs to a larger, more disturbing context: (1) the popular British anger at the U.S. (whether evidenced by the "poodle" slur or the latest Pew poll finding that a bare majority of British subjects approves of the U.S.); (2) a growing acknowledgement of British weakness and appeasement, as exemplified not just by the escape... NRO https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879398/posts#comment Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:07:48 GMT