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Jewish World Review Oct. 20, 2009 / 2 Mar-Cheshvan 5770 A Job Waiting for a Woman? By Paul Johnson http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | As if the parlous state of the world economy and jitters in the Middle East were not enough, we now have a crisis in Anglo-American relations. There are faults on both sides. Since taking office, Barack Obama has behaved as though the Special Relationship doesn't exist. This is by no means unusual in the first year of a new Administration, and it need not be serious. Unfortunately President Obama's attitude has been compounded by a catastrophic error by Gordon Brown, Britain's devious and accident-prone prime minister, regarding the release of the Lockerbie bomber. British governments do not always have to do what the U.S. wants on issues that affect both countries. But if Britain decides it is imperative to its national interest to go it alone, it is vital to keep the White House privately but fully informed regarding its intentions. Sir Anthony Eden failed to do this in 1956, when he secretly decided to occupy the Suez Canal in conjunction with France and Israel. President Dwight Eisenhower was kept in complete ignorance — indeed, he was deliberately deceived. In his first explosion of anger (Ike could be very ferocious when provoked), Eisenhower allowed the U.S. Treasury to sell sterling on world exchanges. This provoked a run on sterling, which forced Eden to call off the operation, thus terminating his already shaky political career. It took a great deal of skill on the part of his successor, Harold Macmillan, to put Anglo-American relations back on their old footing. It is notable that when Margaret Thatcher decided to send an expedition to recover the Falkland Islands she carefully avoided Eden's error. She told President Ronald Reagan everything, in confidence, and was given his blessing. As a result, the U.S. was able to render Britain covert but vital assistance during the course of what became a highly successful operation. Brown, who is always boasting about his reading but seems to know little history, ignored these precedents, good and bad, and kept President Obama in the dark. The result has been anger and resentment. Obama may have an edgy attitude toward Britain because of its colonial past, but regarding the Lockerbie release, Brown behaved in what, to borrow a phrase from a former Secretary of State, can only be called a "duplicitous manner." Among Brown's many character failings is a positive dislike of telling the unvarnished truth, as well as the occasional propensity to lie outright. Concealment and deception are habitual with him. Now he's in deep trouble with Britain's greatest — indeed, at present, its only — ally. It's commonplace to say the Special Relationship is dead and pronounce its obsequies. But in truth the relationship is always alive because it is based on deep linguistic, cultural and spiritual values that the two nations hold in common. Sometimes, however, the relationship lies dormant, until it is rudely revived by events. All American Presidents discover, sooner or later, that when they're in a tough spot and are obliged, in the world's long-term interests, to adopt a policy that arouses fierce international opposition, Britain is the first — and, often, only — country to display sympathy and support. Equally, during the lifetime of the average U.S. Administration, Britain is sure to get into a mess that requires a helping American hand, extended not in the normal call of international duty but for old times' sake. In both instances, it is a matter of sentiment, as well as self-interest. And sentiment, if strong enough, is as powerful as Realpolitik. Thus the Special Relationship endures, even though often, like Lazarus, it needs to be raised from the dead. Who is to perform the miracle this time? Brown, clogged by failure on all sides, shell-shocked and made extra clumsy by consciousness of his own ineptitude, is incapable of doing it. David Cameron, the Tory leader, is eager to try. However, as things now stand, it looks as if the Labour government, facing inevitable defeat, will run its full legal term. Therefore, Cameron won't get his chance until next May — and in an ever more dangerous world that is a long time to wait. Obama probably feels too affronted to make an effort to restore friendship with Britain. And he is still sufficiently cocky to fail to see the necessity of doing so. That leaves Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has been on the fringe of great events for a long time and knows from experience how important it is for America and Britain to remain closely allied. President Obama's global grandstanding has left Mrs. Clinton with little to do. But this is an important job waiting to be done, one that she could do quietly, unostentatiously and effectively. To restore the Anglo-American Special Relationship would be a fine feather in Hillary Clinton's cap — as well as a fine test of her diplomatic skills and womanly intuition — especially if she retains presidential ambitions and if Obama, as now seems likely, is a one-term President. Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here. BUY THE BOOK Click HERE to purchase it at a discount. (Sales help fund JWR.). Eminent British historian and author Paul Johnson's latest book is "American Presidents Eminent Lives Boxed Set: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant". Comment by clicking here. Previously: 07/21/09: Obama Has to Be World Sheriff 03/24/09: Short works of genius that cheer up the writing profession 02/11/09: What would Darwin do? 01/27/09: Are you sophisticated? Here's how to find out 01/06/09: What did they talk about in the Ice Age? The weather, of course 09/09/08: Time, and our appalling ignorance of it 08/19/08: Eye-stopping glimpses of an exotic and forbidden world 06/30/08: How to fill a lecture hall, and how to empty it 06/23/08: Americans should count their blessings 05/20/08: Pajamas for Presidents 05/13/08: Literary woodlice boring needless holes in biographical bedposts 04/01/08: When markets come crashing down, send for the man with the big red nose 04/01/08: Quality for dinner. Pass the Fairy Liquid, Old Boy 03/25/08: In search of an American President with brains and guts 03/18/08: Technological warfare against mice won't work. Try cats 03/11/08: What is a genius? We use the word frequently but surely, to guard its meaning, we should bestow it seldom 03/03/08: Fiction as a crutch to get one through life 02/26/08: Impatience + Greed = Trouble 02/13/08: Shakespeare, Neo-Platonism and Princess Diana 02/07/08: Where Industry Has Failed Us 12/19/07: People who put their trust in human power delude themselves 12/12/07: What is aggression? 12/04/07: Pursuing success is not enough 11/07/07: Are famous writers accident-prone? 10/31/07: Courage needed to disarm Iran 09/20/07: Who Will Say ‘I Promise to Lay Off’? 07/24/07: Greed is safer than power-seeking 04/02/07: Benefactors must be hardheaded 03/07/07: American idealism and realpolitik 11/28/06: Space: Our ticket to survival 10/24/06: Envy is bad economics 10/11/06: Better to Borrow or Lend? Rethinking conventional wisdom 08/22/06: Don't practice legal terrorism 08/08/06: A summer rhapsody for a pedal-bike 08/03/06: Why is there no workable philosophy of music? 07/11/06: Historically speaking, energy crisis is America's opportunity 07/06/06: The misleading dimensions of persons and lives 06/06/06: First editions are not gold 05/23/06: A downright ugly man need never despair of attracting women, even pretty ones 04/25/06: Was Washington right about political parties? 04/12/06: Let's Have More Babies! 04/05/06: For the love of trains 03/29/06: Lincoln and the Compensation Culture 03/22/06: Bottle-beauties and the globalised blond beast 03/15/06: Europe's utopian hangover 03/08/06: Kindly write on only one side of the paper 02/28/06: Creators versus critics 02/21/06: The Rhino Principle © 2009, Paul Johnson

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