That's a specious response if ever there was one. The Queen is just as guilty of "failing to control" the country's CEO as the Congress is guilty for "failing to control" GW Bush. Both the Queen and the Congress are acting within their constitutional mandate. In the Queen's case, she is primarily restricted to advising the Prime Minister of England. It's the Prime Minister's own political neck if he is successful or not in carrying out the will of the nation under the advisement of The Queen.I'm not impressed.
All these accomplishments and war, poverty, and unrest still plagues the world. I fail to see the good in such a lengthy rule if she has allowed Blair to get involved with the so-called U.S. war on "Terror".
I think that two world wars, a common language, intricate business economic ties, and blood relations account far more for the historical Anglo-American alliance. Your view of "the modern-day crusade for oil" is just that - a cynical modern day view that doesn't take much history into accountEngland only acknowledges the colonies of the U.S. because we are a superpower allied with them in what is a modern-day crusades for oil and dominance. What do they say: "the enemy of my enemy is my friend?"
Enjoy your Pomp and Circumstance while you all can.
It's the only thing you have to cling to. The future of one the last empires will soon be in the hands of a man who desired to be a tampon within his mistress' underpants.
Don't under-estimate the power of symbolism :smile:
And I still believe the U.S./Monarchy had something to do with the circumstances surrounding Diana's untimely demise.
When all foundational assumptions are true, the simplest explanation is the best one. Let's just rest with the prevailing view that her death was the result of a tragic accident in a highway tunnel along the Seine in Paris. No one pretends that the monarchy was fond of Diana in her last few years, but her behavior was not a strong motive for organized, conspiratorial murder. Even the Queen would probably want her grandsons to have a mother and to have been spared the gried early in life.