Our president famously promised to restore our image in the world. Unfortunately, the president's outreach to the evil, useless, or merely rude hasn't included Britain. The British are noticing:
He insults our troops and PM while sucking up to the French and Germans. But, says NILE GARDINER, the President needs to remember who his friends are . . .
You see, our first European President of America believes institutional "Europe" is our natural ally:
The Obama administration is far happier doing business with Brussels than it is with Britain.
It's no coincidence that some of Obama's closest advisers on European affairs, both inside the Pentagon and the State Department, are fervent believers in the idea of a federal Europe and are certainly helping those leading the charge towards a European super-state.
As a result, the Obama administration has already given its enthusiastic support to the Lisbon Treaty, the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy, and the European Security and Defence Policy - all pan-EU initiatives.
He also seems keener on currying favour with France and Germany - the two nations that did most to oppose America's incursion into Iraq and who have singularly failed to provide adequate support in Afghanistan - than he is with Britain.
Institutional Europe may be a friend to President Obama, who aspires to make us the New World Europe, but Europe cannot be America's friend. European states can be our friend--but not "Europe." It should be our goal to stop the European Union, whose anti-American elites will smother the pro-American embers that still burn on the continent.
Britain is a brother, friend, and ally. It pains me that our president thinks nothing of our common history and achievements, but our president is not America, though he leads us for now. Many Americans still see Britain as our best ally in a dangerous world.
Eventually, we'll elect a president who will not reject our common heritage. That American president will appreciate Britain all the more for your ability to endure the current slights you have faced from a president who knows too little history to guide his actions.
Heck, who knows? Maybe President Obama will be that president if he can pull his head out of his--ah, "State Department."
