The 'special relationship' between the UK and US is crumbling

Peter Bergen writes that the real issue is not the embarrassment caused by the leaked cables, but the true state of the connection between the US and the UK -- which has been called the "special relationship" ever since former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill used the phrase in a famous speech in 1946. By almost any measure, that special relationship is now defunct -- politically, militarily and economically

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