What Obama has done to our special relationship with Britain

We and the United Kingdom have been allies all of the 20th century. We stood by them when they were alone against Hitler and the Nazis, they stood by us in our trials  and battles. 
Now see what this British writer says Obama and  Democrats have done to our century-plus alliance with our ancestral homeland.
Do you think it wise to keep Democrats in office and continue the damage done this past eight years?  The Tunnel Dweller

PETER HITCHENS: America isn't our special friend. It ruined our Navy, Empire and future 

" Now will we grasp that the United States is not our friend, but a foreign country whose interests are often different from ours?

"President Obama’s blatant intervention in our internal affairs is not a sudden breach of a soppy ‘special relationship’. The USA’s only real special relationship is with Saudi Arabia, a 70-year-old hard pact of oil, money and power, welded together with such cynicism it ought to make us gasp.

"Barack Obama’s open desire for us to stay inside the EU is by no means the first or worst example of White House meddling here in these islands. Bill Clinton forced us to cave in to the Provisional IRA in 1998 and his successor, George W. Bush, continued the policy by making us do Sinn Fein’s bidding afterwards.

"Washington came close to scuppering our recapture of the Falklands in 1982. And with the current state of our Armed Forces, which can nowadays do nothing without American support, I often wonder how the White House and the Pentagon would behave if Argentina once again seized Port Stanley." . . .

"If anyone thinks Hillary Clinton is a great friend of Britain, they’re in for a big surprise."

Regrettably, I do take issue with Mr. Hitchens' point of view on this next:

"In the blackest months of the Second World War, just after the fall of France, the US Congress demanded almost every penny we owned before it would authorise the famous Lend- Lease programme.Secret convoys of Royal Navy warships carried our reserves of gold bullion (estimated to have been worth £26 billion in today’s values) across the Atlantic – mostly never to return. Billions in negotiable securities went the same way, and British assets in the USA were sold off at absurdly low prices."

True, Great Britain did almost bankrupt herself buying war materials from America. We were forced to do cash-and-carry because of the neutrality act and would have legally had to sell to Germany on the same basis. President Roosevelt's concern was for Britain's solvency and his desire was to-as he said- "remove the dollar sign". The American President with the help of Congress and the trade of some British bases approved lend-lease whereby we "loaned" Britain the materials to resist Hitler. This is discussed in some detail in the chapter titled "Lend-Lease" in Winston Churchill's history of World War Two, Their Finest Hour. Sir Winston calls Lend-Lease "the most unsordid act in the history of any nation".

As to Hitchens' opinion of Obama, I am in full agreement.
The Tunnel Dweller