Obama sees anything British as Colonial and anti-Black African Marxist. We have seen how well that thinking has worked out in Africa! m/rWhite House no longer sees anything special in UK relations - FT.com
May 1, 2015 - Geoff Dyer in Washington
.... On top of that, the Obama administration is waking up to the prospect that
the next government in London could be even more inward-looking as it
grapples with Britain’s membership of the European Union and strong support for Scottish independence.
US officials say they still value close intelligence and military
ties with the UK, but at times sound almost dismissive about the current
British government’s reluctance to play a bigger role in the world.
“They are still one of our first phone calls but there are times when
they just do not seem that engaged,” says a senior administration
official. ...
... Obama himself has also been accused of looking to disengage from parts
of America’s traditional role in the world and one former senior US
official said that the president had not been helped by Mr Cameron’s
international reticence. He pointed to Margaret Thatcher’s famous
warning to George HW Bush after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990
that he should not “go wobbly”.
The former US official continued: “Obama has at times looked lost and
it would have helped him to have a stronger British prime minister who
could have given him some direction.”
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