Will US-UK ties now bloom or wither?

WHILE it is true that a citizen of the United Kingdom who resides in the United States is regarded as a "foreigner" in the sense of being the holder of a passport of another country, in reality, many Americans (and especially members of its political intellectual elites) are more likely than not to treat a Brit as part of the national-cultural family, as being "one of us".

Indeed, notwithstanding the fact that the United States was established as part of a rebellion against the British Empire and an effort to separate the new nation from the old "mother country", more recent history, coupled with the bonds of language and history, have helped transform the political, diplomatic, cultural, economic, military ties between the US and the UK into something quite unique.

Or, as former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who called for an alliance between the English-speaking people, described it: "a Special Relationship". (His mother, incidentally, was born in the United States.)