In Lebanon a month ago, it turned out everyone had seen video of the enormous anti-war demos in the UK, and so there was no need to have any discussion about, well, how it wasn't *your* bright idea to go invading places. People were very understanding.
A year before that, in the US, the guy at the Alamo desk thanked us for Tony Blair. It was about 2am UK time by then, so we just grunted and grabbed the keys. He meant well, and he was pretty young - it seemed a bit mean to say, "well you can jolly well have him, then!". Tempting though!
I guess people see what they want to see. But it's hard to take against the US as an entity on the grounds of its foreign policy without reflecting on the fact that Mrs T, Section 28 et al was the public face of Britain for over a decade.
PS I hear you have an iRiver iHP. How did you find the user interface?
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...what the public face of Britain is like these days...
Date: May 17th, 2004 01:37 pm (UTC)From:A year before that, in the US, the guy at the Alamo desk thanked us for Tony Blair. It was about 2am UK time by then, so we just grunted and grabbed the keys. He meant well, and he was pretty young - it seemed a bit mean to say, "well you can jolly well have him, then!". Tempting though!
I guess people see what they want to see. But it's hard to take against the US as an entity on the grounds of its foreign policy without reflecting on the fact that Mrs T, Section 28 et al was the public face of Britain for over a decade.
PS I hear you have an iRiver iHP. How did you find the user interface?