On a more basic level, there is a sense that the Obama administration is ignoring the needs and counsel of longtime allies.
Ahh….hope and change:
Shortly thereafter, according to Merkl, the Europeans were taken aback when the “neo-conservative Bush administration” scornfully rejected their well-meant offers of post-9/11 assistance with disdain for the allies’ “backward military technology and budgets.”
Well, it is backward. And lord knows, nobody does disdain better than Obama.

