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The most important factor in our "Special Relationship" with Great Britain was the bloody war we had to wage in order to gain the freedoms granted to every Englishman. We learned to never trust the British Empire but forgot for a while and are now paying with money and blood for that mistake. The biggest beneficiary of the Iraq war was British Petroleum and the biggest spender was the USA.
The real "Special Relationship" is the City of London has figured out how to use our military and money to protect their investments and control. We really need to tell them and all the rest of the European financial centers that we are not their protectors and have enough to do at home before we continue to waste money protecting them.
We sought independence from Britain to become autonomous and have our own form of representative government.
We kept British traditions, culture, and heritage, along with the language and English Common Law. They are all still part of the US.
Yeah...seriously.
I don't give a damn about Britain or any alliance. I don't want this country having any alliances anymore beyond whatever interests we have at any particular time.
And i don't have any British traditions, culture, or heritage outside of the English language.
I don't give a damn about Britain or any alliance. I don't want this country having any alliances anymore beyond whatever interests we have at any particular time.
Then North Korea sounds like the ideal location for you. You can be as isolated and cut-off from the rest of the world as you desire. Like it or not we live in a global economy, and what effects one country also effect other countries.
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And i don't have any British traditions, culture, or heritage outside of the English language.
If you were born in the US, then you are very much a product of British traditions, culture, and heritage, whether you know it or not.
"American attitudes toward representative government, private property, local and private rights, political community, decent manners, family relationships, and even the physical pattern of civilized life, all are derived principally from British custom; and these constitute true traditions, accepted unquestioningly by the mass of Americans as “the American way of life,” even though they were originally imported from Britain in the seventeenth century, and have been strengthened by borrowings from British society ever since." --- The Russell Kirk Center: What Are American Traditions? by Russell Kirk
John Locke, a seventeenth century English philosopher and physician, wrote the book that Thomas Jefferson would latter reference in his Declaration of Independence. Even the founding principles upon which the US was built originated from England - "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Although, Jefferson changed that last part. John Locke originally wrote "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property."
Every aspect of the US is merely an extension of British tradition and customs, most especially noted in our legal system. Presumably you do not consider yourself above the law, and expect a jury of your peers at a trial, right? Thank a limie for those concepts, because they did not originate in the US.
Then North Korea sounds like the ideal location for you. You can be as isolated and cut-off from the rest of the world as you desire. Like it or not we live in a global economy, and what effects one country also effect other countries.
If you were born in the US, then you are very much a product of British traditions, culture, and heritage, whether you know it or not.
"American attitudes toward representative government, private property, local and private rights, political community, decent manners, family relationships, and even the physical pattern of civilized life, all are derived principally from British custom; and these constitute true traditions, accepted unquestioningly by the mass of Americans as “the American way of life,” even though they were originally imported from Britain in the seventeenth century, and have been strengthened by borrowings from British society ever since." --- The Russell Kirk Center: What Are American Traditions? by Russell Kirk
John Locke, a seventeenth century English philosopher and physician, wrote the book that Thomas Jefferson would latter reference in his Declaration of Independence. Even the founding principles upon which the US was built originated from England - "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Although, Jefferson changed that last part. John Locke originally wrote "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property."
Every aspect of the US is merely an extension of British tradition and customs, most especially noted in our legal system. Presumably you do not consider yourself above the law, and expect a jury of your peers at a trial, right? Thank a limie for those concepts, because they did not originate in the US.
Global economy doesn't mean that i have British traditions and culture.
Again, i don't care about an alliance with Great Britain nor do i care to have one.
The countries where our enemies reside. Obama goes out of his way to insult our allies and befriend our enemies.
If by befriend you mean blow them up with drone fired missiles.....sure. Or maybe you thought the gunshots that killed Osama were us befriending him?
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) are so damn great, why did we break away from them, genius?
