British diplomats and AngloAmerican types in Washington have a nearsuperstitious prohibition on uttering the words Special Relationship to describe relations between Britain and America lest the...

British diplomats and AngloAmerican types in Washington have a nearsuperstitious prohibition on uttering the words Special Relationship to describe relations between Britain and America lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cockcrow.
Christopher Hitchens

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The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone somewhere is doing something for the Third World. For this reason it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills however vicariously this mandate.
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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British diplomats and AngloAmerican types in Washington have a nearsuperstitious prohibition on uttering the words Special Relationship to describe relations between Britain and America lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cockcrow. Christopher Hitchens

British diplomats and AngloAmerican types in Washington have a nearsuperstitious prohibition on uttering the words Special Relationship to describe relations between Britain and America lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cockcrow.
Christopher Hitchens