I thought the new administration was going to restore our standing in the world. Bush had so alienated our allies that we needed to mend some fences, right? So how, exactly, does repeatedly dissing our closest ally, the United Kingdom, restore our standing?
We've pledged $900-billion to HAMAS in Gaza. We have pledged to pay to upgrade the security forces in the West Bank. So, I guess we've improved our standing with the towel-headed anti-Israel crowd in the Middle East. We've threatened "America First" provisions in our various pork spending plans which nearly sparked a trade-war with Europe. And now our super-genius president has twice pissed-off our closest ally.
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