Why is united kingdom involved in making our foreign policy...

[butterfly77]

I notice that Christopher hitchens and other spokes persons from england are on every talk show trying to push the war. Is this drunk and any of his friends going to fight any wars, whats in it for them.

[FloridaPat]

1. The USA is the biggest user of oil in the world. The UK is #2.

Follow the oil.

[Briar]

2. Hitchens

may be channelling Tony Bliar and his coterie, but he isn't a spokesperson for most Brits. He certainly seems more at home in the USA of late!

[butterfly77]

3. I heard some other brit on Michael nutbrain Savage....

talking about they need to do something about the progressive in this country and how we don't seem to know that there are terrorists, He was also spouting off about the progressives and dems in the house and senate and the warmonger said he was up in washington and he was watching Savage the racist was about to piss in his pants because of the so called liberals.

[N90ATC]

4. Say, let's talk about Northern Ireland!

They ahve their own issues that we should interfere in...

[many a good man]

5. They are our junior partners in empire

They get more of a say than you or I.

[LeftishBrit]

6. It's more a question ...

of Tony and his cronies allowing Bush to determine OUR foreign policy.

And since this has always been incredibly unpopular with Brits, and is now even more so, the few remaining Tony-lovers are getting shrill in trying to defend it; but it's not the general UK viewpoint. The anti-war demonstrators are far more representative of British opinion than the likes of Hitchens.

[FormerDittoHead]

7. The UK has the largest foreign ownership of US assets...

http://www.cfr.org/publication/10092/foreign_ownership_of_us_infrastructure.html?breadcrumb=default#6

The country with the most holdings in the United States is the United Kingdom, followed by Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, and France. At the end of 2004, the sum of all foreign assets in the United States had an estimated market value of $2.7 trillion, though only 2 percent of these holdings are owned by state-run companies.

Foreign companies' holdings are most concentrated in the manufacturing sector, but they also extend into several of the eleven "critical" areas identified by the Bush administration. In the energy sector, British Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell, and Venezuela's state-owned Citgo(!) all have holdings within U.S. borders.