Happy 76th Birthday with some remembrances

 Well, it's that time again. Another year of life has passed and you've just turned 76 years old. How do you feel? Do you look back on your life each year on your birthday?

Can you look back to 1965 when we met? To spring1966 when I had to leave Bahrain because I would graduate that June from high school in the U.S. and you had to return to the U.K. for your next school term there? 

Do you remember that you and I had to take separate flights out of Bahrain to London because your late father, may he rest in peace, had found out we were madly in love and it was an unwelcome complication for the Al Khalifa regime? Do you remember how we'd settled into a deeper relationship while staying at the Dorchester? Do you remember how Uncle Shaikh Khalifa arrived to lay down the law, to force me to return to the U.S. earlier than we'd planned?

Every year on your birthday, when I write to you, I look back on our history over many years. No matter how I feel about what you've become, my memories from those days still bind me to you. I wasn't just a passing fling, no matter the efforts of some in your family to downgrade me and the words you slung at me in our last meeting. We loved each other. We were lovers. Every time we met again over the years renewed love, even the last time when you said that you didn't have time to fall in love with me again. 

There's a quote which I believe. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. This year, which is my 77th, I remember that you are the only man who ever truly loved me. I wish you a very happy birthday.

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Historic Partnership

So you were thanking a U.S. Codel of Republican lawmakers on the Senate Armed Services Committee including Zionist Tom Cotton. Are you aware that dirty warmonger and Islamophobe is the deeper Republican leadership's selection to run with Marco Rubio in the 2028 election. Perhaps you remember Cotton shown in a famous photograph as the U.S. soldier standing in front of a large cache of Iraq's gold which would be stolen to benefit off-books ops?

The article I just read in the News of Bahrain website, dated 1 January 2026, and the impetus for this post, said that you aspire to strengthen and advance relations with the U.S. in all levels. I laughed.

You also reviewed the longstanding relations between the two countries and praised the role of the American community in Bahrain and its contributions to various areas of development. I laughed again.

Perhaps you've forgotten my own historic role and contributions in various areas of development? Let's see some dates: 1965, 1966, 1972, 1975, 1980, 1981.

And then there my photos, letters, videos, diaries, songs and books which document some of my historic role. Does that make you laugh? You were so nervous that I would betray you or your trust by publishing any of them, but I didn't because that's never been who I am. Some of my thoughts connected to our history have been published in this format, but it's not the New York Times, is it? It's never been the tabloids, has it? Not once. 

I'm patient. I'm waiting for you to keep your promises to me because you want to keep them, not because I make your name public in a displeasing way. Have you noticed? I do my job of deflecting from history and soap opera by smacking you on Twitter. It's an indication that there must be some historical relationship, but not the depth of it. I hope it makes you laugh.

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