Obama and Britain: a not-so-warm relationship...

Nile Gardner, the director of the Margaret Thatcher Centre for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC, wrote an interesting piece in the Daily Mail about the special relationship (or the lack of) between the US and Britain since Obama came to office.

It covered a number of incidents that separately might amount to very little but when stacked together they painted a decline and deterioration in the historic relationship between the two great allies. To prove his argument he sited evidence and occasions to back his claim. The first evidence was, the president ordering that a bust of Sir Winston Churchill to be removed from the Oval office just days after he was sworn into office. The bust was a gift from the British people to the US after the 9/11 atrocities. Then came the 25 DVD set gift and the snubbing of Mr. Brown when he was in Washington and the list went on, the latest indication of this decline was a few days ago when the president failed to mention Britain or the British Troops and their efforts in the Afghanistan War in his 40 minute speech at Point West.

Gardiner thinks that Obama seems to be oblivious to the debt of gratitude he and the US owe our country. And that the president needs to be made to open his eyes, woken up and reminded of that gratitude!

There is no doubt that both countries need each other and there is little doubt that Obama is ignorant of that fact or the effect and impact his actions have on the relationship. But Obama is a man on a mission a man with a dream; he wants to create a New World Order centred on socialist ideology and dogma, where he is the sole leader. His world will be the playground of the left, and the newly emerging markets, economies and powers (who are naturally left leaning), because he thinks that he is their saviour.

Britain as it is today is not left (socialist) leaning enough for him plus it is showing signs of moving further to the right (with the anticipation of a Conservative government after the next general election). Germany, France and most of Europe will fit much better within his system of belief and views, and in time they will emerge as the closer preferred partners not Britain. In the coming future we will see more and more corporations, partnerships and alignment between the US and the new economic powers such as China, India and some South America countries.
President Obama will slowly try to suppress any of the old traditional powers, allies and all those who do not follow or fall in line with his doctrine to achieve his dream.