Are American policymakers finally waking up to the fact that Britain is the enemy of the United States?
April 14, 2010 by
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6913572/Americans-blame-Britain-for-rise-of-Islamic-extremism.html
Although not fully cognizant of why Britain harbors and unleashes Islamic terrorists, some Americans, at a policymaking level, have seen the distinct link between the failed bomber, Umar Farouk Muttalib, and the place where he was trained – Britain. Some notable points in the above-linked article:
- Daniel Pipes, a scholar on radical Islam and former adviser to Rudolph Giuliani during his presidential campaign, said: “The UK is a menace to the outside world. It’s been a problem for years now. This is just one more example.”
- Charles Allen, a recently-retired veteran CIA officer who was intelligence chief at the Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush, said “al-Qaeda had worked much harder to get Westerners, people who live in the West, who may be citizens of the West, to become recruits and train in places like the tribal areas of Pakistan and Yemen. The British have the most immediate and serious problem.” He cited the greater difficulty that Muslim immigrants to Britain encounter than they do in America. He said “it is the lack of assimilation, a great deal of alienation, is what the Muslims experience.”
- Marc Thiessen, former chief speechwriter for President George W Bush and a former Pentagon aide, expressed a similar view when he said the Muslims were much better integrated into American society and considered themselves Americans within a generation because the US embraced the melting pot concept. “That doesn’t exist in Europe in the same way, and particularly in Britain, which is a more socially stratified society than the US,” he said. “They live in Muslim ghettoes and feel alienated from the larger society and not accepted.”
To be clear, I’m not talking about the United Kingdom or British citizens. I’m talking about the British oligarchy, aka the British Empire.
How many Americans have been killed by brits vs other countries?
The U K is not and enemy of the U S
We are their rescuers and liberators just as Mr Churchill said on June 4 1940
Fail troll is fail.
Ah gods don’t get so political. I’m british and I like the USA. To be honest what my government does has nothing to do with me. What do you suggest? That you wage war on the whole of the UK. Relax will you? Nobody really care to be honest.
what so america didn’t consider us an enemy when they were funding the ira?
also the article is of opinions by americans
I agree with BonCerise…I have been to the UK and the people are extremely friendly and the country is beautiful.
Why not turn the tables around and ask why the US has such problems with gang violence or political corruption that is just as bad if not worse than some of the terrorist attacks we’ve had. We all have our problems.
The British have been our allies for a long time as we both share very common interests and goals.
Reading one article with one persons opinion doesn’t make the US and UK rival enemies!
Then, according to your rationale or the purported rationale in this article is that the American Army should also be considered an enemy because they didn’t stop the Ft. Hood bomber? Or that maybe Rudy Giuliani is also an enemy because under his term as NYC mayor many innocent previously assimilated American Muslims no longer feel welcome?
Where does pointing the “finger of guilt” stop?
Considering the anti-Muslim rants I’ve seen here on YA, if I were an American Muslim I certainly wouldn’t feel “assimilated”……would you? If the Muslim hatred doesn’t stop our problems are only going to get worse, and that applies to ALL countries.
BTW, most Americans feel a special affinity with the UK that can’t be influenced by the insane rantings of a few misguided politicians and journalists. Tony Blair dragged the UK and it’s military into our war with Iraq. He stood behind GW Bush. And, whether you agree with his decision or not, British soldiers have been dying along side American’s from the beginning.
How traitorous it is now for some to turn around and bite the one person who “had their back”.