Quote Originally Posted by bopa the Magyar View Post
If the relationship was special, the U.S would have demanded that the great titans of German industry who had helped fuel the Nazi war machine, were torn apart and distributed amongst the Western Allies, they would have scrapped the debt we owed them and they would have suppoerted us in the Suez crisis. None of this happened, fair enough as I can understand the reality of the relationship.
Indeed, they built up Germany and Japan and left us to rot.