The special relationship has got us into trouble

Has Britain's close alignment with the US made us the prime target for Islamic terrorists? It certainly seems as though our foreign policy is endangering British citizens.

Tony Blair says that al-Qaeda is waging a war against the entire Western world, says Chris Blackhurst in the Evening Standard. "Tony, that's not how it feels." Only Britain and America were targeted in this latest outrage, and that's no coincidence: only Britain has aligned itself so closely with the US that the world deems us Bush's "quasi-international deputy". We and the US have been seen to be spearheading the war in Iraq, committing fully to fighting in Afghanistan and refusing to push for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon. Lining up with a "universally loathed" global strongman has brought us "hatred, death and destruction". The special relationship has got us into trouble.

The special relationship: has it made us a terror target?

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