John Young wrote: [...]
The short-lived patriotism after WTC/Pentagon has been transformed into uncritical jingoism in the US and surprisingly in the copycat UK.
Why "surprisingly"? Every UK administration since 1945 has been America's poodle in foreign affairs and military matters. [...]
These targets are not celebrated, they are taken for granted as if to last forever, well, as long as King George lasted on the American continent
<ahem> George III's rule on the American continent lasted longer than George Washington's did. The present Queen is *still* the head of state of more of the American continent than the president of the USA is (http://www.communication.gc.ca/facts/geography_e.html) Ken Brown (I may be British but I'm not a bloody monarchist - though I don't mind the royals as much in places like Canada & Australia as I do here http://www.cix.co.uk/~kbrown/rotm/1999nov.htm)