Barack Obama is BETRAYING BRITAIN "in her hour of need," taking a neutral position in the latest dispute over the Falkland Islands (or as Barack probably calls them, Las Islas Malvinas). It is, to put it in terms the British might use, almost as if he knifecrimed the Special Relationship in the back.
What have you done for me lately? (snap! snap! snap!)
Toby Young, you giant baby, maybe Obama doesn't want to associate himself with Regan's legacy?
"Scientists believe that the territory [the Falklands] could have up to 60 billion barrels of oil underneath its coastal waters." (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/6708902/Falkland-Islands-oil-reserves-to-help-British-economy.html)
If my understanding of international law is correct, that means the Falklands actually belong to the United States.
Furthermore, with all the cows in Argentina, it's probably worth mentioning that we own it too.
So, Mr. Obama is not betraying anyone. He's actually being pretty nice here.
Be careful Barack. You wouldn't like Gordon Brown when he's angry.
There have been rumors in the ether that Obama is not a fan of Gordon Brown -- or Britain for that matter -- because of the colonialist history with his ancestral home, Kenya. Obama certainly has treated Brown somewhat roughly, considering America's "special relationship" with Britannia. Sarkozy and France appears to have replaced Britain as America's special friend on the Continent. And pundits on both sides of the Atlantic have read maybe too much into the fact that President Obama removed the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office (Maybe it was just a symbolic act, removing something beloved to Dubya).
It is probably all just be rumors and here say, this idea that the President has lingering resentment over British colonialism and his family's past on his father's side. A President -- particularly of Obama's character -- is beyond such petty things. Still, it is too sexy and tantalizing a story to be ignored, whether factual or not, in this digital age in search of eyeballs.
man, if he's still angry enough about colonialism to give britain the cold shoulder, he must REALLY hate america, for the slavery...no wonder he's trying to destroy it from within!
Oil, imperialism, and the Iraq war make everything awkward.