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It was a bit dumb of Obama to say France are the US's main ally. Maybe the UK should pull their troops out of the middle east then.

Mind you, Orwell probably gets his info from the same sources that, well...

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MurphyCop, the Irish are as big a lobby as any in Washington. I am not surprised US will bail out Ireland. There are more Irish in the US than there ever were in Ireland. In fact, that was one of the reasons holding back FDR from joining the war in the 40s. The Irish lobby was angry at Churchill and didn't want the US to help UK. After Pearl Harbor that changed. The Irish had legitimate grievances against the UK. As far as the Scots and Welsh. I figured the Welsh don't love the UK, they were exploited longest. I knew some Scottish hated the UK, but do most of them?
Visagrunt, so Canada could have a different king than UK. Why not look into one now.? Who should be king of Canada? They might like a different monarch. When I was fishing or hunting in rural Canada, I noticed quite a few rural Canadians did not seem to like the Royal Family.

It's nice to see that Obama Derangement syndrome has spread to the United Kingdom. Perhaps after the University system is completely destroyed by the Conservative-Liberal Democratic coalition government, minor slip-ups in policy-wise intangible foreign speeches will be the least of your concerns.



In all probability it was a mis-statement. He probably meant to say that France was "one of" America's main allies. But please, go ahead and tell me next that he shouldn't script anything he speaks because foreigners (particularly in the UK, a land that's fallen from grace quite a bit since it's height early in the 20th century) really aren't anal-rententive about what goes into a speech.

It's pretty much utterly shameless that you're accusing a the History major known as Orwell of getting his information from some backwater source, particularly given that he really isn't jigonistic by American or even international standards and has credited much of the defeat of Germany to the USSR (something that is outright heretical in the conservative segments of American society). It's also an interesting case of projection, as (given this thread) you're probably quite a hyper-nationalist Briton who nostalgically remembers (the stories other people have told you) of the heyday of the British Empire. Plus, you probably either get your history from the Daily Mirror or the Sun.