VFR has his head in the clouds me thinks...
..but thanks very much for letting us go way back when.....of course we were only fighting the second string.....guess the Hessians lent some backbone to the Redcoated mob. You guys did much better the second time around....burned the White House for us....been some times during the last administration that I would like to have invited you back for an encore.
Granted our current President does seem to mumble his words and could not be confused with your great orator Churchill....but then didn't Winston have an American mother?
Please do not forget the angled flight deck or the Fresnel Lens landing system....also British inventions that the American navy has put to good use.....course there is not a lot of need for them in the British navy.
A very interesting place to visit in the USA is the Aviation and Space Museum in Washington, DC. The entry lobby is called the hall of firsts......amazing exhibit of the record makers....the Wright Brother's airplane, Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, Apollo, Rutan's airplane, the X-1, neat stuff really.
As to fighting wars from space, the sea, or from zillions of miles away.....tell that to the troops in Afghanistan, or the Gulf War....or go check the American graveyards in your own country Normandy, Iwo Jima, or dozens of other places. As I recall, the British SAS, Australian SAS, Canadian SF and the American SOG troops are all in it together in Afghanistan.
Matter of fact .....you might reconsider your views....afterall you might be talking about kin folk....I did have several Uncles in England during WWII.....after all they were oversexed, overpaid and overthere.....the British were undersexed, underpaid, and under Eisenhower.
DNA testing could resolve that issue . Family reunions are held in July for the Cooper clan ,VFR....cousins are always welcome! Of course, depending upon his age....hmmmmm...might be a closer relation than I care to think about !