Gosh, I Really Love This New “Smart Diplomacy”
…that’s undoing all the damage that Chimpy McHitler did to our relationships with key allies.
Key allies like, say, Britain
Senior aides to President Barack Obama accompanied four Uighur prisoners as they were flown from Guantanamo Bay to the British colony of Bermuda, without the UK being informed, it was revealed yesterday.
In an escalating diplomatic row over the transfer of the former terrorist suspects, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed the transfer with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband in what was said to be an uneasy conversation. Privately Whitehall officials accused America of treating Britain, with whom it is supposed to have a “special relationship”, with barely disguised contempt.
One senior official said: “The Americans were fully aware of the foreign-policy understanding we have with Bermuda and they deliberately chose to ignore it. This is not the kind of behaviour one expects from an ally.”
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Politics | tree hugging sister | 
June 15, 2009 12:41 pm
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“The Americans were fully aware of the foreign-policy understanding we have with Bermuda and they deliberately chose to ignore it.”
I’m not so sure they were “fully aware”. This admin. was too busy in school learning about how mean and aweful the U.S.A. is to take time to learn about the rest of the world, geography and history
The Uighurs should be expelled from Bermuda immediately. This administration treats our allies with contempt but our enemies with fawning adoration. We’re fucked.
“This is not the kind of behaviour one expects from an ally.”
I’ve some bad news for this official, Obama has a different definition of “ally” than normal.
Well, there is a diet drug called “Alli” that has the side effect of making you poop your pants. Maybe that’s the kind of “alli” he has in mind.