“Our relationship with the UK will be affected. It wouldn’t surprise me that not too far down the road, the UK will announce their exit from Afghanistan.”
We’re in Afghanistan for the long term. No worries there.
It is frustrating though - there does seem to be a lot of ‘anti-Britishness’ coming from Washington. The persistence in calling the company “British Petrolium” being the most obvious. They removed the ‘British’ from the title about 15 years ago when it was realised that it is 40% American owned (and 41% British owned) - also the contractors who built the well and the contractors who operated it where all 100% US owned - so this whole undertone that the Dems are placing about the ‘British’ thing does stick in the craw a bit. I appreciate that it doesn’t help that the CEO is very obviously a Brit and has said some daft things, but the intent has always now been to do the right thing to sort the mess out. I would suggest this is best achieved by working together rather an exercise of self-righteous name calling that this show event seems to be.
I would suggest this is best achieved by working together rather an exercise of self-righteous name calling that this show event seems to be.
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I see a scenario where a President Bush, for example, would be working closely with anyone and everyone who could help get a grip on the gusher in the Gulf. At the same time, the Left-tilted media would be promoting the idea every minute of air time and print paper that he was doing nothing but is in the pockets of bigoil, yadda yadda...
Obama and the dems are using this pantomime in the House Committee room to demonize BP, believing that that is helpful in their magical view of the world.
I would love to know what thoughts are going through Tony Hayward’s mind as he deals with these poseurs.