American betrayals
From Mr Henly Keown-Boyd Sir: Although I agree with most of Mark Steyn's article Mow ridiculous can you guys get?', 26 January), I would like to remind him that there have been occasions in the last half-century when a vicious antiBritish tendency in the USA has seriously damaged our country.
Perhaps the most notorious of these was Eisenhower's betrayal — under pressure from Dulles and the US oil lobby — of Eden over the Suez crisis. More recently, American support for the IRA has, at least in part, contributed to the triumph of terrorism over the democratically elected government of the state, culminating in the nauseating spectacle of Adams and McGuinness smirking their way to their plush offices at Westminster, fat cheques from the British taxpayer metaphorically in hand.
The Special Relationship has always been a fine thing, so long as the Brits do as they are told.
Henry Keown-Boyd
Thornbury, Herefordshire
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