Churchill, in other words, became a symbol of presidential hubris in the US, even as the “special relationship” can be viewed as a symbol of British decline. People tend to forget that Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem about “the white man’s burden” was not an ode to the British Empire, but to the US colonial enterprise in the Philippines.
换句话讲，即使“特殊关系”可以视为英国衰落的象征，但丘吉尔却已成为美国总统傲慢的标志。人们往往忘记吉卜林“白人负担”的著名诗句并不是大英帝国的颂歌，而是为了歌颂美国在菲律宾的殖民事业。