Sticky Wicket
I don't see Blair as a toady. Great Britain seems to be remarkably prosperous in some indefinable sense. I don't know the numbers on their economy, and in any case that's not what I'm getting at. The people seem to be asserting themselves the way they always do, with restrained authority. We Americans are too quick to forget where we got these ideas.
But the Brits are too quick to forget that our Revolution was more than happy words. We really did, we really DO, believe in being free of Kings, even elected ones - and by extension, too much reliance on the wisdom of the past.
So I think the Brits are happy to side with us, because they know we need them. Without them we are nothing. That they survived our Revolution proves how strong they are, and how solid. After all, at the same time they had a few problems on the continent.
And the Americans are happy to side with the Brits, because we love to show them how gracious we are with our inheritance.
Blair and Bush. Where is Blair from, and how do the English talk about him?
