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'Special Relationship' with US meaningless Lead letter
in Daily Telegraph, UK Sir - We had common interests, and each had resources that the other needed. Though still referred to by politicians and the press, the "special relationship" has now lost its meaning as far as policy considerations are concerned. Partners must surely consider each other's interests as well as their own. Yet the United States administration is pursuing policies that are unashamedly in its own interests, or in those of its oil companies and military/industrial complex, and in nobody else's. The list of instances is becoming a long one - for example, the Land Mines Treaty, the International Criminal Court, the ABM Treaty, Kyoto and, most recently, The Biological Weapons Convention. Are we merely toeing the American line for the sake of the servicing of the missiles on our submarines and such intelligence as the US cares to share with us? Prof Robert Hinde, FRS
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