Reply #5: nope no one can change the friction between the two sides

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its always going to be there just due to cultural differences, it was there in WW2, Bosnia, Iraq etc etc and will be there when we are all dead and buried, as i explained it before, think of the yanks as a baseball team, the brits as a cricket team and they are taking to field to fight an enemy who is playing golf, there is just no way that you can bring the two teams together without there being some problems.. your post shows one of the issues right away, pay down the debt is not something that the British military even thinks about, if you said that to them it would be hell of insulting...