US president may back Cameron’s campaign for the UK to stay in the EU,but there is a whirlpool of other global issues to concern themIt would be easy to regard Barack Obama’s two-day visit to the UK as one long political broadcast for the Remain camp, all funded off the books by the US taxpayer. In private the president might voice doubts approximately how David Cameron ever managed to get himself into this mess by staging a referendum; Obama is famously pragmatic approximately the fights he chooses, and he might well enjoy skipped this one. But apart from Brexit,Obama and Cameron enjoy other serious diplomatic discussions ahead on the interconnected and intractable issues of Libya, Syria, or Russia,counter-terrorism co-operation and shaping the attack on Mosul, the single largest city held by Islamic State.
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Source: theguardian.com