President Barack Obama just plain rude to Britain. Don’t call us in future. :: Iain Martin
We get the point, sunshine: we’re just one of many allies and you want fancy new friends. Well, the next time you need something doing, something which impinges on your national security, then try calling the French, or the Japanese, or best of all the Germans. The French will be able to offer you first rate support from their catering corps but beyond that you’ll be on your own.
When it comes to men, munitions and commitment you’ll soon find out why it pays to at least treat the Brits with some manners.
In Obama-world, the Brits committed the cardinal sin of helping to enable the fascist GWB’s invasion of peaceful, helpless Iraq - and in Hussein’s universe, that offends Arab barbarians, and is therefore a no-no. Britain must be punished.
Jebus. I remember when a meeting between the US President and the Brit Prime Minister was called a summit, and was a pretty big deal. (via Instapundit).
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Smart diplomacy, eh?
I think young Barry, while bouncing on dad’s knee, heard too many stories of heroic grand-dad’s struggle against the evil Limeys in the Mau-Mau rebellion. This probably his form of payback.
Hussein The Won’s foreign policy initiative: Limp-wrist your friends, glad-hand your enemies (or try to do so; most of that second group will likely not be too quick with the shake-and-smile routine - Putin, for example).
After all, The Obamanation has so much more in common with such as Chavez, both of them being socialists and liars and political thugs and all…