The Thankless and the Sexless

The Thankless and the Sexless

Two stories of markedly divergent import:

“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth . . . :” The U.K., the United Kingdom, aka Britain, aka England, aka the British Isles, that multi-named little island across the Pond, is getting uppity now that the threat from the former U.S.S.R. has dissipated and it no longer feels it could be annihilated overnight.

Rescued by the United States from almost certain defeat in World War I and World War II and from the threat of the Russian Bear a generation ago, the Brits since then have grown more and more forgetful of their incalculable debt to America.

Now, when America is in the throes of social upheaval, a House of Commons committee has called for an end to the “special relationship” that has existed between the U.K. and the U.S.A. for seven decades.

No longer fearful of the Huns or the Russians, the Brits can have the temerity to thumb their noses in a westerly direction.

The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee issued a report saying the UK should feel free to just say no to the United States and that ”there is a need to be less deferential” to their crass American cousins.

The ostensibly primary reason for this sudden attack of independence? The Iraq War.

As the committee expressed it, “The perception that the British government was a subservient ‘poodle’ to the US administration leading up to the period of the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath is widespread both among the British public and overseas:” http://bit.ly/cti7hw

And there you have it: The House of Commons feels humiliated and subservient because America led the charge into Iraq with its Brit poodle trailing behind and now they want to cut the leash. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1595)