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Perhaps President O. was referring to their body odor when he called them our strongest allies?

FM The majority of the mainstream media here have not covered the 'story' (yet), so I don't think it's on most people's radar. It does, though, have people in the military scratching their heads, as you would expect. Obama's administration does seem, from this side of the pond, to be doing a great job of flipping us the bird, not least of all because of ongoing operations in AFG and Iraq. Also, Obama's handling of increasing tensions between the UK and Argentina over the Falklands Islands has been noted. A couple of weeks ago the administration referred to the islands as the Malvinas (the Argentinean name for them, as is well known), and Clinton has in the recent past offered to 'mediate' the tensions, which allows one to draw the inference that there is something to discuss. Given that we went to war to get them back from Argentina - an effort helped immeasurably by Reagan's Administration - that's the sort of shit 'up with which we shall not put'. These recent comments and actions appear to fly in the face on solid ongoing military relations between the two countries (RJ integration happening right now, for example) and, presumably, the closest intelligence sharing operation between America and any other nation - the very reason the UK-US special relationship began in the first place. However, for those that do care, there appears to be a degree of pragmatism mixed in with the occasional bit of indignation! Pragmatism because, while our Conservative/LibDem coalition government does not care much for Obama or his Administration, the military ties appear to remain solid. But pragmatism most importantly because these sorts of political disagreements and shenanigans have happened in the past (Edward Heath's banning of SR-71 flights out of RAF Mildenhall, and furious Henry Kissinger's response ordering NSA and CIA to immediately cease all contacts with GCHQ, MI5 and MI6, springs to mind) and will almost certainly happen again in the future, but not to the extent that they cause irreparable damage.

News flash...Big Blue doesn't care about what its members want period.