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Originally Posted by Skybird
Hypothetical...?
Are you still buying the fairy tale of special British-American relations in the present? It might feel like that in the crew ranks and interpersonal relations, but politically already Bush held you by your noses and lead you around in circles - and you did "Wuff!" when he said "Balk!" If you recall, several high ranking British commanders bitterly and very openly complained about that and the very one-sided nature of these special relations two or three years ago. The complaints continued through the ranks of commanding field officers after they returned from Basra - and Afghanistan as well.
And the big rewards and economic contracts Bush promised you for participating in Iraq (and the Spanish, and ther Poles, and others) - have they ever come true? 
Sorry Jim. You Brits are "useful idiots" for your American buddies these days. Or more politely: its nice to have you at the end of a long American line when America goes to war. Of course they tell you you are special. Else you would not follow them.
WWII era is over, so is the cold war. Get real. And Obama has no sense for Europe anyway, it simply does not interest him much, and never has. His focus is elsewhere.
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My apologies but I somehow overlooked your post Sky.
There is a growing feeling in the UK that what you post may well be correct.
Myself....I simply hope that is not the case.
Only time will tell.