Charles Krauthammer has his usual excellent article in the NRO in which he talks about Obama’s slight of one of our most reliable allies in the world, Great Britain. This “island race of people” as Winston Churchill used to refer to them, has been our ally in both World Wars and through other regional brush wars too numerous to name here. Dr. Krauthammer wonders aloud, as I do, as to why this President has such a dismissive attitude to a country that has spilled so much blood in the past and continues to do so alongside the USA.
To compound the offense, Obama is said to have embarrassed Benjamin Netanyahu when he was at the White House recently, by walking away from a Head of State and leaving the Israeli delegation to shift for themsleves. But in reality, Obama embarrassed the United States with his snub. I hope American Jewish voters will remember this in November. I know I will.
This inexperienced President has perplexed our traditional allies by ignoring those countries that look to America as their hoped for pattern and embracing those countries that hate us and what we stand for. North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Russia and China.
I hope our allies, especially Great Britain, know that Obama only expresses the view of the hard Left. The bond between America and England lives on in the hearts of the citizens of this country. Hopefully, Obama and crew will soon be gone and we can officially re-establish the “special relationship” that has existed for more than a century.
To quote Churchill once more: “We shall not only endure, we shall prevail.”
~~John Cronin~~

Slapping Friends
By: Charles Krauthammer
The disrespect this administration has shown traditional allies makes no strategic or moral sense.
What is it like to be a foreign ally of Barack Obama’s America?
If you’re a Brit, your head is spinning. It’s not just the personal slights to Prime Minister Gordon Brown — the ridiculous 25-DVD gift, the five refusals before Brown was granted a one-on-one with The One.
Nor is it just the symbolism of Obama’s returning the Churchill bust that was in the Oval Office. Query: If it absolutely had to be out of Obama’s sight, could it not have been housed somewhere else on U.S. soil rather than ostentatiously repatriated?
Perhaps it was the State Department official who last year denied there even was a special relationship between the U.S. and Britain, a relationship cultivated by every U.S. president since Franklin Roosevelt.
And then there was Hillary Clinton’s astonishing, nearly unreported (in the U.S.) performance in Argentina last month. She called for Britain to negotiate with Argentina over the Falklands.
For those who know no history — or who believe that it began on Jan. 20, 2009 — and therefore don’t know why this was an out-of-the-blue slap at Britain, here’s the backstory:
In 1982, Argentina’s military junta invaded the (British) Falkland Islands. The generals thought the British, having long lost their taste for foreign lands, would let it pass. Besides, the Falklands have uncountably more sheep than people. They underestimated Margaret Thatcher (the Argentines, that is, not the sheep). She was not about to permit the conquest of a people whose political allegiance and ethnic ties are to Britain. She dispatched the navy. Britannia took it back.
Since then, neither Thatcher nor her successors have countenanced negotiations. Britain doesn’t covet foreign dominion and has no shortage of sheep. But it does believe in self-determination, and will negotiate nothing until and unless the Falkland Islanders indicate their desire to be ruled by a chronically unstable, endemically corrupt polity with a rich history of dictatorship, economic mismanagement, and occasional political lunacy (see: the Evita cult).
Not surprisingly, the Falkland Islanders have given no such indication. Yet inexplicably, Clinton sought to reopen a question that had been settled for almost 30 years, not just pointlessly stirring the embers but even taking the Argentine side (re: negotiations) against Britain — a nation that has fought and bled with us for the last decade and that today has about 10,000 troops, far more than any other ally, fighting alongside America in Afghanistan.
Of course, given how the administration has treated other allies, perhaps we shouldn’t be so surprised.
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http://article.nationalreview.com/430137/slapping-friends/charles-krauthammer