Don't run off with the EU
From Mr Richard A. Heddleson Sir: In an otherwise excellent article, Bruce Anderson (A new special relationship', 10 August) makes two points with which I must take issue.
The first is that the 9/11 attack 'was the first time that there had ever been such an onslaught on the US mainland'. Washington DC was sacked and burned, and the city of Baltimore bombarded, by the world's greatest military power in 1814.
The second point is the implication that the special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom is equivalent to the US's relationship with any other country in the world. There is no reason for the United States not to have an excellent relationship with Russia now that it is no longer under the yoke of the Soviet Union, but the United Kingdom will always be the mother country. no matter where any immigrant comes from. The US has completed its difficult adolescent years, and Americans can now deal with each other as mature adults. Please don't spoil it all by running off with the EU. It will never last. And we're family.
Richard Heddleson
Palo Alto, California
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