BBC News: Reports on the meeting between UK PM Gordon Brown and the US President Obama, it went well. It would not matter if they could not stand each other, the US and the UK are tied to the hip when it comes to the International System. The close relationships between FDR and Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan and Lady Thatcher had at its core a shared mutual interest, in World War Two it was winning against Germany and Japan, in the 80s it was standing up to the Soviet Union at the time of the Cold War. Today the USA and the UK are in Afghanistan, the UK is still in Iraq with the USA. Thus mutual interest is at the core of the Special Relationship. Also we cant stand France. The new Obama Administration cant get to close to Gordon Brown he might lose the General Election in the UK in 2010.
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