The HopeChange Chronicles: Obama Towards the UK -- "The Worst Kind of Ally"

Some Brits have noticed that the Obama Administration is hardly a good friend to its own allies. Well, I've been, as the Brits say, "banging on about" this for a while now, along with a lot of other concerned folks. What utter folly it is in this dangerous world to be both a feckless, arrogant, treacherous ally and a toothless, obsequious, fawning enemy ... and yet that's exactly what's happening.

Check out what one British observer calls Obama's "special form of disrespect" towards the UK. It does seem that from almost Day One he's been actively and passively dissing the Brits. Note also the issue of Afghanistan, where British troops are fighting too:

What really troubles British policymakers is that the collapse in the relationship is institutional, not personal, and that the president has little interest in listening to what Britain has to say on many world issues, even at a time when British servicemen and women are sacrificing their lives in what is supposed to be a common cause.

The astonishing disregard with which Mr Obama treats Britain has been made clear by his deliberations over the Afghan issue. As he decides how many more troops to send to Afghanistan — a decision which will fundamentally affect the scope of the mission — Britain is reduced to guesswork. The White House does not even pretend to portray this as a joint decision. It is a diplomatic cold-shouldering that stands in contrast not just to the Blair–Bush era, but to the togetherness of the soldiers on the ground.

. . . Why is it that the Foreign Office and our senior military commanders are as much in the dark as anyone else as to what the strategy for Afghanistan is to be? We don’t know, because Mr Obama is too busy cosying up to his new chums in Moscow and Beijing to tell us.

HOPECHANGE! This administration's foreign policy is a pathetic joke.