Wednesday, 2. April 2003
Topic: W A R - on April 2, 2003 at 3:34:12 PM CEST
Analysis: Strains Show in Trans-Atlantic Alliance
So much for the "special relationship."
Barely two weeks into war and strains are already showing between the United States and its top ally Britain over what sort of war to wage in Iraq and how the region will look once fighting ends.
Britain is at pains to stress the two nations are entwined in the most "intimate" of operations -- protecting each other's backs in war -- and that "absolute openness, close cooperation" characterizes the transatlantic military alliance.
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