Joe Shmoe
Sir: Your piece ‘Not so special’ (Leading article, 8 July) was right. Joe Biden doesn’t like us and a brief 45 minutes with Rishi Sunak last week doesn’t change that. In Saudi Arabia last year, Biden compared Israel’s treatment of Palestinians with Britain’s past in Ireland. This was outrageous – what about the US historical treatment of Mexicans, Cubans and Filipinos, and Biden’s friendliness towards IRA terrorists? Britain enjoyed excellent relations with the US under Kennedy, Reagan and Clinton, all of whom had Irish ancestry, and it is self-indulgent and a dereliction for this President to make his chosen personal background an issue, as he does.
Britain stood shoulder to shoulder with the US through all the major conflicts of the 20th century, save Vietnam, and has long been the US’s most reliable ally. In Ukraine, it is Britain that the US has been able to rely on, not the EU or Germany or France, and certainly not Ireland, which is ‘neutral’.
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