Hardly our fault, who the hell is going to buy a plane that has to go back to America to be repaired and which relies on a foreign power to give us the codes in order to fire the thing????
Bush has already shown what contempt he has for his allies, and to be honest if I was the British Goverment, I would be having a long hard think about telling Bush where to get off in terms of using this country as a home to his Star Wars Technology. Perhaps it also may be appriopriate now that we are moving in to a more European orientated defence procurement that we also started to become more self suffiecient in terms of Intelligence and review such sites as Menwith Hill, Croughton, Molesworth, Feltwell etc.
Bush can't have it both ways, treat your allies with contempt, and very quickly you will find they are no longer such close allies.
Last edited by Styron; 26th Feb 2006 at 15:41.