Less Special, More Relations, Please

U.S. Relations Must be Rooted in Reality Rather Than Rhetoric, Yorkshire Post, May 23, 2011. "It is not particularly depressing that there is little personal sympathy evident between Prime Minister Cameron and President Obama. Undoubtedly, the pomp and circumstance for which official Britain is famous will be deployed to effect, but the very fact that Obama is making a state visit testifies to the fact that, for Cameron, its significance rests mostly in its visible symbolism."