Gordon Brown. WTF?
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- mikotondria30
the uk has long been the 50 somthing'th state, a us aircraft carrier just off the coast of europe - in a very strategic position, full of a very inventive people who (nearly) speak the same language as 'US', and who are controlled and blasted by a television media like no other place on earth. That same media has ingrained in the british public a national sense that the us, for better or worse 'won' the second world war for the allies, and being brought up in england is to have instilled in you the sense that the us is like a muscular giant of a younger brother, not quite as savvy as you, a bit rough around the edges, but loyal and overall a good guy.
The alternative was, prior to the whole one-europe thing was a pitiful existence at the margin of a continent full of foreign-speakers most of whom we had been at war with solidly for the last 1000+ years, and all of whom actually disliked us somewhat..
In a sense, particularly as the dual exporters of almost all english-language culture, the two nations are indivisible, and even within the us homeland I would say that there are greater regional differences in peoples there than between the us as a whole and the uk..
The iraqi war was, as was every major 'policy' decision of the last 50 years, lead by mulitnational corporations who are far more powerful than any one nation state, and certainly it's politicians could ever pretend to be.
What was Gordon Brown supposed to do when he stood on the Rose Lawn, start an overshadowing and ultimately pointless argument with a man who struggles to put three words together ?
I switched on just in time to hear George say that his 'Benchmark for success in Iraq is.....victory.
And success."
How Gordon Brown didnt guffaw like a donkey right in his face, I don't know - that was indeed a moment of excellent politicianship.
Britain has no, nor ever will have an Obama, there just isn't the hope. Anyone with his ambition left the place a long time ago.