POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY GIDEON RACHMAN IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES
Tough and tireless, yes, but to whose benefit?
"Turn the page" on the coup in Honduras?
When was the last time she or any American Secretary of State talked that way about a coup that the U.S. did not favor?
The Falkland Islands?
They belonged to Britain before Texas belonged to the US.
Before California.
Before Alaska.
And well before the US seized Hawaii against all the natives’ wishes. Their national petition was completely ignored in Washington as the US government annexed the place.
And the people in the Falklands are British in origin and in loyalty.
What you see here is the "special relationship" in action.
Tony Blair spent British lives and wealth on Bush's pointless crusades, and what does Britain get back?
You might think so elemental a thing as support in the Falklands.
But that's not how America operates. It takes what it wants from everyone, and blubbers about principles.
