The Special Relationship

The special ship is a term that has stuck around. It's proved enduring despite any amount of criticism and derision. And it's quite an extraordinary idea that it persists to this day. I look at the fact that british soldiers are fighting in afghanistan, in what has proved to be not a very successful american enterprise. The united states is a sovereign country. Like all great powers in history, it follows those interests and objectives with complete disregard for the interests and objectives of its supposed friends let alone its avowed enemies. That is the law of nations. And it’s a complete delusion to suppose there will be an exception to it.