Britain's Future Lies With America, Not Europe  Britain's Future
Lies With America, Not Europe  December 29, 2011 Originally
published in The Wall Street Journal Europe  In 1952, then-U.S.
Secretary of State Dean Acheson said that "Britain has lost an
empire but has failed to find a role." Sadly for Britain, it
decided to renounce its longstanding global cultural, legal and
philosophical links to North America and instead looked for that
role in Europe. Despite its geographic proximity to Britain, the
Continent is nevertheless home to a host of cultures, legal
systems and governing philosophies very different from those of
traditionally liberal Britain. The consequences from that bad
choice have bedeviled Britain for decades.  Now, as a result of
Prime Minister David Cameron's stance at the recent EU summit,
Britain and Europe are at a crossroads. America could help
Britain make the right choice, to both countries' mutual
benefit.  French President Nicolas Sarkozy helpfully summed up
the results of this month