BoogyMan
03-28-2010, 10:26 AM
The next liberal that screams about how Mr. Bush trashed our worldwide relations with other countries is going to get a nasty surprise.
Link (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/british-mps-dont-call-us-relations-special-2010-03-28?siteid=YAHOOB)
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- An influential multi-party group of British parliamentarians on Sunday called for British leaders not to speak of a "special relationship" with the U.S. because the transatlantic relationship, while still strong, is cooling.
The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on Sunday released a report saying its side should adopt "a more hard-headed political approach towards our relationship with the U.S. with a realistic sense of our own limits and our national interests," according to the chair of the committee, Mike Gapes.
"The use of the phrase 'the special relationship' in its historical sense, to describe the totality of the ever-evolving U.K.-U.S. relationship, is potentially misleading, and we recommend that its use should be avoided," he said of the term coined by Winston Churchill.
.: Read the rest of this article :. (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/british-mps-dont-call-us-relations-special-2010-03-28?siteid=YAHOOB)
Link (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/british-mps-dont-call-us-relations-special-2010-03-28?siteid=YAHOOB)
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- An influential multi-party group of British parliamentarians on Sunday called for British leaders not to speak of a "special relationship" with the U.S. because the transatlantic relationship, while still strong, is cooling.
The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on Sunday released a report saying its side should adopt "a more hard-headed political approach towards our relationship with the U.S. with a realistic sense of our own limits and our national interests," according to the chair of the committee, Mike Gapes.
"The use of the phrase 'the special relationship' in its historical sense, to describe the totality of the ever-evolving U.K.-U.S. relationship, is potentially misleading, and we recommend that its use should be avoided," he said of the term coined by Winston Churchill.
.: Read the rest of this article :. (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/british-mps-dont-call-us-relations-special-2010-03-28?siteid=YAHOOB)