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Do you support the Special Relationship?

Do you support the Special Relationship?

  • Yes

    Votes: 10 100.0%

  • No

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

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  • Total voters
    10
Keep the special relationship with the UK and end the one with Isreal.
 
"The English and the Americans are two peoples separated by a common language."
-Winston Churchill-
 
EMNofSeattle said:
that's the problem today, everyone uses the terminology "the <fill in name of president here> administration announced" it's like we think the president is actually reviewing the many thousands of descisions that his staff of several hundred people plus their staffs are making.... and is fully responsible for all of them....
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I believe the phrase is "the buck stops here"
 
WCH said:
I believe the phrase is "the buck stops here"
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Seems to be enshrined when it is the OTHER guy you are staring at. BushII had a dozen or so huge lies exposed when pushing to go into Iraq, yet I don't recall a huge CON chorus chanting "The Buck Stops Here!" :roll:

Given Sen Cruz's track record with muck racking I'm more reserved in just how a bust loaned to one President was returned to the loaner nation after that President left office. ;)

I see a special relationship as a non binding proclamation, this one based on our majority settlers during our founding period. (lest we forget the Angloish folks here passed many laws and regulations to restrict 'other than Anglo' immigration.) For quite a long time after the closing of our Manifest Destiny our immigrant population was more Germanic than British, but the 'white guys' handle still fits.

Will be interesting to see when 'Merica embraces a 'special relationship' with it's neighbor to the south. :peace
 
notquiteright said:
Seems to be enshrined when it is the OTHER guy you are staring at. BushII had a dozen or so huge lies exposed when pushing to go into Iraq, yet I don't recall a huge CON chorus chanting "The Buck Stops Here!" :roll:

Given Sen Cruz's track record with muck racking I'm more reserved in just how a bust loaned to one President was returned to the loaner nation after that President left office. ;)

I see a special relationship as a non binding proclamation, this one based on our majority settlers during our founding period. (lest we forget the Angloish folks here passed many laws and regulations to restrict 'other than Anglo' immigration.) For quite a long time after the closing of our Manifest Destiny our immigrant population was more Germanic than British, but the 'white guys' handle still fits.

Will be interesting to see when 'Merica embraces a 'special relationship' with it's neighbor to the south. :peace
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Let's see. You brought W, race, White privilege and immigration into a conversation about a bust and our relationship with Britain.

Completely ignoring the constant lying and corruption of the Obama Admin.
 
notquiteright said:
I see a special relationship as a non binding proclamation, this one based on our majority settlers during our founding period. (lest we forget the Angloish folks here passed many laws and regulations to restrict 'other than Anglo' immigration.)
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'British Americans', those of predominantly British ancestry, still form the largest ethnic group in the States. However, the influence of Britain on the U.S transcends mere genetics. I thought that was obvious. The influence is embedded in your political institutions and cultural fabric.

notquiteright said:
For quite a long time after the closing of our Manifest Destiny our immigrant population was more Germanic than British, but the 'white guys' handle still fits.
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The term 'Germanic' is a meta ethnicity that includes all those who descend from the Germanic tribes, not just Germans. The English are predominantly Germanic. Northern Scotland has a Germanic influence. Britain is a Celto-Germanic nation by all accounts. Your comment does not make much sense.

If you did mean German and not Germanic then your comment is, alas, false.

Between 1850 and 1930, about 5 million Germans migrated to the United States with a peak in the years between 1881 and 1885, when a million Germans left Germany and settled mostly in the Midwest. Between 1820 and 1930, 3.5 million British and 4.5 million Irish entered America. Before 1845 most Irish immigrants were Protestants. After 1845, Irish Catholics began arriving in large numbers, largely driven by the Great Famine. 1

1 Jay P. Dolan, The Irish Americans: A History (2010) pp 67-83
 
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