An Empty Special Relationship
Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The Guardian | March 9, 2009
Gordon Brown, like several of his predecessors, is incapable of admitting how unbalanced the UK's special relationship with the US really is.++ But has it ever been a relationship amongst equals? ++ Even Churchill, who coined the phrase, was aware of how uneven the relationship was. ++ The disequilibrium reached its peak with Blair; his behavior towards the US highlighted "how much of a satellite his country had become." As a NY Times journalist pointed out in 2006, the sole special relationship the US holds is with Israel.
