[sukhoi-30mki]

HMS Argyll

[Da Coyote]

Dear UK,

Please hold on a while longer.

Hopefully, we’ll flush the t*rd this Nov, and next year you can hopefully arrest him after we send the sorry sack of feces back to Kenya.

I cannot think of a human being (?) for which I have less regard than our Cretin-in-Chief.

[brownsfan]

Our current president has serious issues with England. It has to do with England’s treatment of Kenya. Now, Obama is in a position to “pay them back”.

[Army Air Corps]

For your list.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Is the Argyll that little yellow and black job?

[Yashcheritsiy]

The US and the UK - the race to the bottom.

[MinuteGal]

Obama loves to insult our loyal allies, primarily Britain.

He's undoubtedly busy right now compiling a new tape of his greatest speech excerpts to present as a gift to Her Majesty on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee celebration.

Cheaper than commissioning a bust of General George Washington to present to her, I suppose.

Leni

[Sir Napsalot]

This is a prime example of our fearless leader’s leadership style -

LEADING FROM BEHIND

It was praised by both lefties and righties (cough*Frum*cough) alike, admired so much around the world even now.

[ichabod1]

Hate to say it, but that boat reminds me of the USS Caine.

[Tallguy]

I have to think that this decision to initially exclude the British frigate was undertaken at the level of the 5th US Fleet (Bahrain) or possibly by the Commander, Battle Group. The reasons may have been as simple as that of timing — IOW’s “How long do we have to delay while waiting for the HMS Argyl to form up?”

I love criticizing Obama as much as the next guy, but this probably isn’t related to Obama’s loathing of all things Britsh.

[Ohioan]

What is really ridiculous about this, is that it is well past time that the European powers reassumed responsibility for patrolling their own back yard. The idea that American lives & the fruits of American Labor should be endlessly at risk on behalf of people who can jolly well take responsibility for protecting their own interests, is not rational.

The implied corollary to the Monroe Doctrine--under which we protect this Hemisphere from European adventures, is that Europe protects its backyard from local threats.

Does anyone really believe that Iran poses a comparable threat to all Western interests--equivalent to Soviet Communism? We were protecting ourselves in European spheres, when we propped them up in the Cold War. But we do neither ourselves nor them, a favor, when we do not demand that they retake responsibility for their national interests--and there is no way that this is not more in their interests than in ours.

My other concern in this, is this. Some of our Republican candidates have delivered some pretty hysterical remarks over Iran (Pseudo Pragmatism). I really believe that Obama is maneuvering a "summer surprise," to save the election. How can Republicans, who have taken the plunge to the overreach that dealing with an Iranian threat is somehow primarily our duty, properly respond to an Obama attack on Iran this summer?

Again, we should demand that Europe reassume its traditional roles in maintaining Eastern Hemisphere stability, before it sounds like a desperate election ploy!

William Flax