Mrs Thatcher about the weakness of European countries
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In the spring of 1986
Margaret Thatcher received an urgent and secret request from the American president.
Ronald Reagan asked her
to let him use British air bases
for an attact on the Libyan President Colonel Gaddafi.
The Prime Minister agreed.
France and other European allies had refused.
It had the effect of cementing the anglo-american alliance.
There's another point:
What's the good of having bases
if when you want to use them
you're not allowed to by the home country?
It made America realise that Britain was her real and true friend
when they were hard up against it and wanted something
and that no one else in Europe was.
They're a weak lot some of them in Europe, you know.
Weak, feeble.