Posted on 02/25/2010 4:31:35 AM PST by Schnucki
The Obama administration’s decision to remain neutral in the dispute between Great Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands is a shameful decision that will go down very badly across the Atlantic. As The Times has just reported, Washington has point blank refused to support British sovereignty over the Falklands, and is adopting a strictly neutral approach.
In the words of a State Department spokesman:
“We are aware not only of the current situation but also of the history, but our position remains one of neutrality. The US recognises de facto UK administration of the islands but takes no position on the sovereignty claims of either party.”
The remarks had echoes of an earlier statement by a senior State Department protocol official who, when asked about the shoddy treatment of the British Prime Minister in March last year, responded:
“There’s nothing special about Britain. You’re just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn’t expect special treatment.”
Even by the relentlessly poor standards of the Obama administration, whose doctrine unfailingly appears to be “kiss your enemies and kick your allies”, this is a new low. The White House’s neutrality in a major dispute between America’s closest friend and the likes of Venezuelan tyrant Hugo Chavez, Argentina’s biggest backer, represents the appalling appeasement of an alliance of anti-Western Latin American regimes, stretching from Caracas to Havana – combined with a callous indifference towards the Anglo-American alliance.
Over the course of the last year, we’ve seen a staggering array of foreign policy follies by this administration, from the throwing under the bus of the Poles and the Czechs over missile defence to siding with Marxists in Honduras. But this latest pronouncement surely takes the biscuit as the most brazen betrayal so far of a US ally.
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Well said on all points...
And from what I heard, the people who live there wish to remain under the U.K.
But was not there people inanother area of Europe in the 1930’s that wished to remain under another Nation that were sold out to Hitler by Britian and France?
"Be careful what you wish for, it might come true".
"Be careful what you wish for, it might come true".
How crass of them.
Based on our treatment of Britain in the last year and a half, we know why the Poseur wants our new embassy in London to have a moat around it.
Obama is scum.
I'll keep an eye on this in the future. :-)
hey the Brits can get Obama’s backing with a little Quid Pro Quo. The Brits call up Obama = Hey we have your certificate of Live Birth here in our grubby little hands. Support the Sovereignity of the place of your birth. When he agrees to support them. They send the original birth cerificate to the washinton Examiner, the utilize hey Britian has decided since your father supported overthrowing the government in the 1960’s we have decide to flush your ass down the drain. American and Great Britian have always had an exceptional record of getting along since WWII. The pantywaist president is in it for himself, hates great britain because hs daddy
Obama is acting out a grudge for his Mau-Mau grandfather. There is no coincidence that Chicago thuggery and Mau-Mau genes found a common residence in this man.
I think you may well be right about that.
you need to remember most people love him over here than over there.
it was us what elected him not the Brits
they have been helping us since the beginning and we would not have got this far without them.
the have been losing their men and women helping us in our wars for two decades now
so here’s a thought, remember who got him elected hey
yea that country which has given their lives to help us ion over twenty years and this is how we say thanks
only if you believe the media, most did not want him
I know because I go over there a lot and have family and friends over there
they don’t , he must have seen the BBC and saw a clip of a couple of hundred muslims marching for obama and then thought it must be nearly 60 million people who wanted him .
I despair sometimes I really do at stupidity
To a country, every single nation in Europe overwhelming favored Obama rather than McCain. Though, the Russians just had a simply majority in favor.
So, sure America elected Obama. And the Europeans where ecstatic!
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