You can have your nuke back at the end of class.

Nuclear weapons are bad. I get that. They are bad, and against the law, but only if they are held by countries that we don't trust, not when we have them. This is only half the problem because of all the countries in the world, we side with the Americans. This is either a very clever strategy, or a terribly dumb one. It could very well be a friends close, enemies closer sort of affair behind the scenes, but in the public eye the special relationship has been strong for years, and by special I mean America is like Biff Tannen, and UK is like the guys who stand behind him, we are basically a young Billy Zane. Laughing and lording it up in our big bullying pals shadow.

All over the papers this week is Iran, where our soldiers will be 'liberating' next, taking freedom and democracy to people who don't ask for it, and delivering the western way of life via laser guided missiles. We won't stop until these heathens have a McDonalds on every corner, right next to the Starbucks. It is no wonder that Iran is next after all they have the audacity to try and build a nuclear weapon, and tell the Americans (and us) to fuck off, when only us, the coalition of good guys are allowed those weapons. The un-christian, un-democratic Iranians can have sharp sticks and whatever weapons are left over from the last army the Americans armed.

This is maybe slightly off subject, but I was watching a programme yesterday about the state of Germany in the decade before Hitler rose to power, and I was amazed at how poor the country was in that period, and even more amazed when you see how they salvaged their economy in time to unleash their hate on the world. It could have something to do with the Americans funding the Nazi party I suppose. Just like they did with the Taliban and the IRA. Or that could all just be coincidence, or the work of the dreaded 'conspiracy theorists'. Dun dun duh. Those crazy guys.

So if half our problem is not knowing if America feel the same way towards us as our PM seems to feel towards them, then the other half must be the knowledge that we are now, to the rest of the world, just another State of America. Since before Tony Blair fooled voters into thinking he was anything but a sadistic little con artist with an ego bigger than his wifes unsightly mouth, and long before George W Bush pretended he wasn't snorting cocaine in the White House, the majority were happy to follow the Americans wherever they decide, at risk of being the next country they invade. Although that may never happen because we just give them our oil, they have no need to take it by force.

Now that America have a leader who can actually talk and think at the same time, they have tricked everyone into thinking they have changed, trying to show that they are not just tyrannical war mongers, spurred on by the (not so) mighty dollar and the pursuit of un-tapped oil sources. It is transparent though, they still have the same motives and agenda, and the same tired old techniques. Find oil, make up an excuse to get the public on board, and go in all guns blazing and just take the oil. It's the American way.