Kendall Myers, US State Department official, has added further disgrace to the State Department with his derogatory comments made at a lecture in Washington DC two days ago. About the relationship between the US and the UK, he said:
"There never really has been a special relationship or at least not one we've noticed."
"As a State Department employee, now I will say something even worse: it has been from the very beginning very one-sided."
"The State Department and the American Embassy in London, by God they'll be pushing the special relationship till the end of time."
"The last prime minister to resist American pressure was Neville Chamberlain who was a much more brilliant figure in British diplomacy [than Winston Churchill]."
"We typically ignore them and take no notice. We say, ‘There are the Brits coming to tell us how to run our empire. Let's park them'. It is a sad business and I don't think it does them justice."
The State Department
repudiated Myers' comments but do you believe them?
Kendall Myers, US State Department official, has added further disgrace to the State Department with his derogatory comments made at a lecture in Washington DC two days ago. About the relationship between the US and the UK, he said:
Someone needs to be fired from their Job and lose the pension benefits that came with that job.
ReplyDeleteO/T, again; Sorry, But where's Howard Hughes when you Really Need Him?
ReplyDeleteThe prototypical example here may be the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, with only 160 kilometres of paved roads...
This "diplomat" should be fired for not having enough sense to resign.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone believe that Myer's statements are not representative of the State Department's actual views? That Myers crime is openly (insensitively) saying what everybody there at State really thinks?
ReplyDeleteGulp!
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ReplyDeleteNeville Chamberlain a more brilliant diplomat than Winston Churchill...
ReplyDeleteI am speechless.
This is further proof that the state department does not know the will of the American people. Nice picture, Mr. Whit, to go along with this entry.
ReplyDelete2164th wrote, "This "diplomat" should be fired for not having enough sense to resign."
ReplyDeleteHe thought his resignation would have too much "Ugly American" flair, be undiplomatically dramatic, and lack a certain British tact and reserve.
Thank you for your article, really helpful material.
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