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?SMART DIPLOMACY:? British wonder if Obama has it in for them. Given the level of sacrifice by B?

By Glenn Reynolds

“SMART DIPLOMACY:” British wonder if Obama has it in for them.

Given the level of sacrifice by British troops, it was the most extraordinary and insulting oversight.

Had this been a one-off omission, it might have been overlooked as a careless mistake by a president preoccupied with trying to sell a difficult message to his own people. But it wasn’t.

In all the speeches Obama has made since becoming President – indeed, in all the speeches he made when on the campaign trail, too – neither Britain nor the special relationship have merited a single mention.

The country’s in the very best of hands.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on December 09, 2009 (boomark / email).