That would be the same Britain which had hundreds of thousands of troops gaurding the land,sea and air of the Europe and the world for 50 yrs alonsgide its American ally?.
The same Britain that unlike America actually had a Cold War record of DEFEATING COMMUNISM:
Malaya
Oman
Aden
And the word espenses reminds me of the £1.2 BILLION pounds that Britain gave to AMERICA in ww2 in 'reverse lend lease' which included footing the ENTIRE BILL for ALL American expense incurred in Britain between 1942 and 1945.
Oh and we did the same between 1946 and 1991.Britain's Cold War 'reverse lend lease' must have footed the bill for BILLIONS in American expense.
BUT you know what?.
Unlike you,I am GLAD that we footed any bill and had your nation as allies against the Soviets and the Warsaw Pact.
Unlike you,I dont begrudge a penny....
Well, folks, if we really want to get down to it...the War of 1812 started because Britain was impressing (kidnapping) American sailors off American ships. And Britain was not upholding its end of the Treaty signed with the US to end the Revolutionary War. Britain was hogging the fisheries and the western territories which the Treaty stipulated they had to vacate.
But I am willing to let bygones be bygones. It is Christmas after all!
Seriously.....
I am NOT one of those who feels that Britain is beholden to the United States for our help in WW11 and I would have written off the debt or never charged it in the first place.
Winston Churchill has always been a hero to me and I have read every book he has written - some more than once. His speeches ring through the decades now as they did then. I do wish however, that Churchill's Britain was still now as it was then.
As we share a family/culture history with Britain, we too, are going down the same road of political correctness, socialism, leftwing corosion of our moral fiber. The England that held off the might of Germany, that was ready to pick up staves to fight on the beaches, if need be - I fear is no longer - or soon to be no longer.
That grieves me - as it grieves me that America too is suffering that fate. And just at a time when we need one another's strength.
Merry Christmas.