The Special Relationship Just Got Even Less Special [Edition 2]

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LAST week, a British newspaper ran a front-page story about a remark by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama's new Secretary of State, during her confirmation hearings for the job. "The new administration will have a chance to reach out across the Atlantic to leaders in France, Germany, the United Kingdom,'' she said.

Horrors! Britain, said the paper, had been "consigned to the rear" of America's European allies -- although the order might just as easily have been alphabetical, or indeed random, meaning no one was "consigned" anywhere.

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The Special Relationship Just Got Even Less Special [Edition 2]

Now it's true that people like Hillary choose their every word with care. Maybe it was deliberate. But what the story really reveals is the growing -- and ju...

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