The Dead Zone (or, BP and the Oil Well That Keeps on Giving)

[tibilicus]

So the American leadership resorts the the usual tactic, blame someone other than yourself. The situation would be laughable if it wasn't so tragic. Successive US administrations have invited oil companies to come and drill up their shore line, all for the lust of that black substance which keeps America moving. Quite frankly, it was only a matter of time till something like this happened. Let me guess, if it was Dutch Shell at the other end and not BP, would the Dutch leader be receiving a phone call? Or is it just those damn colonials which did it to undermine American interests?

But alas, Obama puts on his mean face and lashes out at "those British". If one good thing will come from the spill, hopefully its a complete collapse of the "special relationship", better known as the "you jump, we say how high relationship". Quite frankly this relationship has been pretty rotten since Suez and the only time its ever been working properly is the Maggie and Ronnie show. You might say Blair and Bush worked well if they weren't both idiots and weren't disliked by the majority of their respective electorate.

So maybe the spill might cause a rift which means we don't have to talk for a few months, you know, till your begging us for more troops in Afghanistan. Of course, will do as your say and everything will be restored in this world. All this depends on Mr Cameron having the balls to stand up to Obama, which of course, he wont. I feel I speak on the part of perhaps a majority of Britain's when I say the attempts to incriminate us are ridiculous and hopefully this will cause the rift in the relationship many desire. I personally don't want anything to do with the special relationship. I deplore it, I think we get shafted by it and quite frankly it completely undermines what little dignity we have left as a country. Funnily enough, "those Europeans" are a lot more sound than the Yanks these days. Hopefully we'll wake up and see that soon.