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PETER HITCHENS: America isn't our special friend. It ruined our Navy, Empire and future
dailymail.com ^ | 4/24/2016 | Peter Hitchens

Posted on 04/24/2016 6:22:49 AM PDT by Nextrush

Now will we grasp that the United States is not our friend, but a foreign country whose interests are often different from ours?

President Obama's blatant intervention in our internal affairs is not a sudden breach of a soppy 'special relationship'. 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 out to make up gasp.

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 to Sinn Fein's bidding afterwards.

Washington came close to scuppering our recapture of the Falklands in 1982. And with the current state of our Armed Forces, which can nowadays do nothing without American support, I often wonder how the White House and the Pentagon would behave if Argentina once again seized Port Stanley.

If anyone thinks Hillary Clinton is a great friend of Britain, they're in for a big surprise.

But surely the Americans fought with us should to shoulder against the Kaiser and Hitler? Not exactly. The USA (quite rightly) fought for its own interest in both great wars, not for us.

When we ran out of money after the First World War, Washington seized the chance to force us to limit our Navy, and so began to overtake us as the world's major naval power. We had feared Germany would do this. It is one of the great ironies of history that the USA ended British sea power.

In the blackest months of the Second World War, just after the fall of France.....

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
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To: the scotsman

Europe is a feminized socialist union.


141 posted on 04/24/2016 7:15:14 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Nextrush

Ms Kirkpatrick was a pro-Argentine disgrace. Haig was inept.


142 posted on 04/24/2016 7:43:34 PM PDT by the scotsman
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To: Little Ray

Simplistic. Without Britain and America, victory would not have been possible. As well as the Empire, Commonwealth and French/French Imperial troops. We are discussing only WW1, and the US contribution has been exaggerated from helpful and crucial to solely war-winning. Without US troops, the Allies would still have won. The British/Empire and French war plans expected to fight into 1919 and had already in early 1918 indentified the units needed to be built up or recalled from other fronts (such as Palestine).

Its the simplistic language of ‘saved’, dig you out etc that’s bad history. Also Americans ignore actually how they relied on the British in both world wars. From supplies to technology, sea power to intelligence.


143 posted on 04/24/2016 7:49:23 PM PDT by the scotsman
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To: the scotsman

True.
Our military was woefully unprepared for WWI. No machine guns, not enough rifles, no worthwhile combat aircraft, etc. Only the USN had a semblance of preparedness.


144 posted on 04/25/2016 5:39:11 AM PDT by Little Ray (NOTHING THAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS TO PAY FOR IS A RIGHT.)
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To: Little Ray

You helped us twice, you sacrificed twice, and we are forever grateful and will NEVER forget it.


145 posted on 04/25/2016 6:18:14 AM PDT by the scotsman
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To: the scotsman

We did take advantage of the UK - for instance most of the initial work on the A-bomb was done by the UK - and we grabbed it and ran.
But for the most part we contributed bodies, beans and bullets at increasing rates.


146 posted on 04/25/2016 6:58:40 AM PDT by Little Ray (NOTHING THAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS TO PAY FOR IS A RIGHT.)
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To: Nextrush
I happen to like the British Empire, but this is revanchist revisionist bull.
The US would have matched the British Navy by 1925 and the British were BROKE. We were building newer classes of ships, while the British were dependent on pre-war designs. The Japanese were literally bankrupting themselves even after the 1923 Kanto Earthquake on building their navy. Limiting Naval spending was in everyone's interest.

Eisenhower's decisions to destroy the French and British Empire in order to screw Israel and help the pro-Soviet Arabs is another matter.
147 posted on 04/25/2016 5:10:17 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: the scotsman
"96% NON Muslim. Tales of our death have been exaggerated."

AHEM! London mayor is now muslim!

The WOGs are inside the walls & opening the main gate!

I'll bet in 9 months a LOT of MohamMADs will be born by Angelo Saxon girls.

Despite the tone of my earlier posts, I wish your 96% NON Muslims would rid their country of these vermin.

148 posted on 05/09/2016 9:35:52 PM PDT by Take_Ur_shot (Some day things are going to be as bad as they are right now!)
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To: Olog-hai

I can.

Britain created Iraq.

L


149 posted on 05/09/2016 9:38:22 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Lurker

Iraq has existed on and off for 800 years or so.


150 posted on 05/09/2016 9:40:15 PM PDT by RedWulf (End Free trade.)
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To: Take_Ur_shot

Yes, disappointing, but one limited power city mayor. Ahem, 2008 and 2012. Dearborn.

Muslims have been here in the UK since the 50s, and most are fine. And were no trouble until the Rushdie affair in 1989.

No, there is little Muslim-white sexual intermingling. More likely to be white girls and young black British men (of Caribbean descent).

I want Muslim immigration/immigration limited and extreme Muslims either deported or the native born ones taken off the streets for a long time. I wouldn’t kill/deport them all, anymore than I blamed all Irish in the UK for the IRA.

We can deal with the minority without behaving like the Nazis on a bad day.


151 posted on 05/10/2016 11:06:17 AM PDT by the scotsman
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To: Leaning Right

I would dare say the Germans would have treated the French better than Clemenceau and Company treated the Germans after WWI.


152 posted on 05/10/2016 11:11:30 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: the scotsman

We’re Nazis because we don’t want to be overrun and dominated by Jew killing Muslim fascists?

well, bye.


153 posted on 05/10/2016 2:58:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: the scotsman
I told ya you were a liberal. It was only a matter of time before the Viking Kitties zotted ya! (or Jim, it was probably Jim, he said so)

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving pro-muslim liberal troll.


154 posted on 05/10/2016 3:40:35 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: the scotsman
"We can deal with the minority without behaving like the Nazis on a bad day.

If there was a nest of cobras in your house, and you had no trouble for weeks. Then suddenly, out of the blue, one of them bit you. Would you:

A)blame just the one cobra

B)teach your children to respect other life forms

C)question why cobras hate people so much

D)exterminate the entire nest

I seem to remember an attack on an airport in Scotland. Carried out by several muslims and one or two turned out to be local doctors. Then, there was the California shooting where the male & female muslims shot up the Christmas party of co-workers.

These same co-workers had give these two a BABY SHOWER recently.

It's thinking like yours (We can deal with the minority) that will doom us all.

Jihad is not a minority opinion with these people!!!!

155 posted on 05/10/2016 3:47:31 PM PDT by Take_Ur_shot (Some day things are going to be as bad as they are right now!)
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To: Lurker; Olog-hai
"I can.

Britain created Iraq.

L

To be specific, the Iraqi borders were drawn by WINNIE (the pooo) Churchill

He was always at your throat or on his knees begging to be bailed out in this war or that!

From concentration camps for Boer farmers in S Africa till WWII, Winnie the Pooo was stirring one witches caldron or another.

The only reason he's been redeemed a little bit in my thinking, is because O'Buttface hates him.

If O'Buttface hates you, you can't be all bad.

156 posted on 05/10/2016 3:48:49 PM PDT by Take_Ur_shot (Some day things are going to be as bad as they are right now!)
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To: Take_Ur_shot

No; it was the Kingdom of Iraq, not the Republic of Iraq, that involved Britain giving independence to the area thereof, and Churchill was not PM in 1932; not even Chamberlain was. T.E. Lawrence had a big hand in that independence push. Furthermore, Churchill was not the PM in 1947; it was Clement Attlee, who ended the military occupation.


157 posted on 05/10/2016 4:06:36 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: the scotsman; mkjessup; onyx; stephenjohnbanker; SaveFerris; Grampa Dave; maggief; RitaOK; ...

158 posted on 05/10/2016 5:59:43 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (If you can't graciously honor JimRob's wishes, then kindly stay the hell out of his house.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Good Jim.

I have had the feelings for awhile that this creep has been a paid troll for the Muslims and worked hard against Trump!


159 posted on 05/10/2016 6:04:46 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Vote for Trump and break your cycle of Battered Conservative Syndrome!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

That’s new! I like it!


160 posted on 05/10/2016 7:00:40 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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