Most of what you said about yourself are self evident from your recent posts. I'm no lover of either political correctness or liberal foreign policies. (Although my home policies do lean that way.) I know you're not a Brit-basher per se', but you do seem to suffer from a hallucinatory condition that quite a few Americans do, that makes them think that every military victory they participated in was nearly all thanks to them. ( I know that not ALL of you are like this, so if you are an American who doesn't believe it please don't rag my arse because I already appreciate your point of view. 😀)
The classic example of this attitude is Hollywood who made that movie about the cracking of the Enigma code machine. In the movie it was all down to the Americans. They aced the sub, captured the machine and cracked the code. In reality it was the Royal Navy who knackered the sub, captured the machine and British intelligence who cracked the thing at Cheltenham. Mel Gibson doesn't help this situation any, because he seems to be on a serious Brit bashing crusade of late. He's totally buggered the histories of the War of Independance and the wars of Robert The Bruce and William Wallace, purely for Hollywood shocking power. I can remember an american guy leaving the cinema after watching The Patriot, leaning on his girlfriend's arm nearly in tears and saying,
"Oh God, I hate those British." Ermmmmmm........excuse me?
Don't anyone from America fall into the trap of thinking we don't appreciate our Big Brother over the pond because we do. We WOULD have lost the Second World War if you hadn't joined. We would have had to make some effort in the Falklands War, without the intelligence and behind the scenes help you gave us. We WOULD have had to design our own fast food joints, if you hadn't given us McDonalds and Burger King.
We love America as a whole. We took you to our hearts. You gave us Jerry Springer, fast food, Hollywood and half our modern culture. We gave you John Lennon............and you shot him.😀
