Posted on 11/24/2009 1:17:58 PM PST by TexasCajun
Bob Ainsworth, the defence secretary, has blamed Barack Obama and the United States for the decline in British public support for the war in Afghanistan.
Mr Ainsworth took the unprecedented step of publicly criticising the US President and his delays in sending more troops to bolster the mission against the Taliban.
A “period of hiatus” in Washington - and a lack of clear direction - had made it harder for ministers to persuade the British public to go on backing the Afghan mission in the face of a rising death toll, he said.
Senior British Government sources have become increasingly frustrated with Mr Obama’s “dithering” on Afghanistan, the Daily Telegraph disclosed earlier this month, with several former British defence chiefs echoing the concerns
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It would seem the annointed one has damaged our relations with the British. Add that damage to the Israelis, Poles, Czechs, Hondurans, Japanese, and the Indians and you start to see a pattern. Wasn’t he going to restore Americas image in the world? Does advertising incompetence really count as an improvement?
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