Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

[Malignd]

<<Sorry, but I can't remember a special event of the
last twenty years I would apply such a strong
expression to.>>

It needn't apply to a special event.  The post-war
relationship has been one of continued and continual
subservience.  

If the strong expression you cite is the word
"subservience," it need not be read as grovelling,
spaniel-like behavior on Blair's part.  Any ally of
the US post-WW II is going to play a subservient role;
it's the only role offered.

Peter Riddell wrote in the London Times:

"Like every Prime Minister since the Suez debacle in
1956, with the significant exception of the
pro-European Sir Edward Heath, Baroness Thatcher
concluded that 'Britain must never find itself on the
opposite side to the US in a major international
crisis affecting Britain’s interests.'  Reflecting the
greater importance of the relationship for Britain
than for the US, the long-term Foreign Office tactic
has been to be an inside Washington player."
 



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