AMERICA’S dominant Atlanticist idea, free trade and an Anglo-American internationalist outlook, emerged out of cold-war necessities, owing more to NATO than to Plato, as Bruce Cumings puts it.

正如布鲁斯.肯明斯指出,美国的大西洋主义、自由贸易和盎格鲁-美国人的国际主义世界观—伴随冷战的需要而出现—更多的是由于北约而非天性使然（柏拉图认为人的一切知识都是由天赋而来，它以潜在的方式存在于人的灵魂之中。 此处使用这层涵义，不知是否得当。）

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Distressingly for the spooks, Mr Kay's answer to the other question about the Anglo-American case for war is that the intelligence on which it relied was faulty.

ECONOMIST: David Kay and Iraq's WMD

The closeness of Anglo-American military and intelligence ties, driven by the cold war, became a defining feature of British foreign policy and a source of tension between Britain and France, which led de Gaulle twice to veto British membership of the then European Economic Community, on the grounds of Britain's irremediable Atlanticism.

ECONOMIST: Britain and the cold war

But the intervening years and the end of the cold war do not appear to have changed the nature of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship.

ECONOMIST: Those perfidious Anglo spies