So, Are These The Actions Of "Special Friends"??? Who needs enemies?

[eyethenkyew]

So much for the Yanks & us having a "special relationship". Perhaps we ought to remember this the next time they invade somewhere and expect to drag us in with them?


http://www.dailymail....et-papers-reveal.html

[Canary42]

Don't you know the special relationship is UK tongue up US bum ?

Been like that since well before Falklands (e.g. Suez)

[Gromit]

That was the British position too until the invasion.

The Falklands had long been an expensive burden, and had long since ceased to be stategically useful. In the decade before the Agentinian invasion, the British were actively seeking to hand the islands to Argentina.

So you can hardly blame the Americans for thinking that was the best policy.

http://www.dailymail....-document-claims.html

As the article states, the US tilted its position to supporting the British.

[jno]

when UK policy is questionable, the US says so, which is actually what you'd hope a real friend would do. UK policy on Suez was contemptible and the US wanted nothing to do with it. UK policy on Argentina was garbled, as Gromit says, and US policy was in line with at least some of it.

The reverse has sometimes been true: the UK politely kept its distance from Vietnam. Shame we were so eager to rush into Iraq just because Bush said so; but we were the ones who decided we wanted to be poodles rather than relations.