UK Telegraph "Britain was forced to plead with the US to take part in the flotilla challenging Iranian power in the Gulf after American commanders decided the Royal Navy had nothing to contribute to the mission."
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"Failing to take part when the French were doing so might have raised questions about the Special Relationship, which has come under doubt during Barack Obama’s presidency. Mr Obama last year described France as America’s closest ally."
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"A Whitehall confirmed the sequence of events and described the international negotiations over the flotilla as “humiliating” for Britain."
It seems our next president will need to go on an apology tour of our pre-Obama closest friends. He may need to take a page from Obama's foreign policy manual, blaming all ills on his predecessor and bowing low before the Queen.
How regrettable; Britain stood beside us in both Gulf Wars and in Afghanistan, but I fear Obama has poisoned the atmosphere, just as he has with American society and his class warfare. How much more damage can Obama do in another four years? TD
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"Failing to take part when the French were doing so might have raised questions about the Special Relationship, which has come under doubt during Barack Obama’s presidency. Mr Obama last year described France as America’s closest ally."
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"A Whitehall confirmed the sequence of events and described the international negotiations over the flotilla as “humiliating” for Britain."
How regrettable; Britain stood beside us in both Gulf Wars and in Afghanistan, but I fear Obama has poisoned the atmosphere, just as he has with American society and his class warfare. How much more damage can Obama do in another four years? TD
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