The US’s European allies fill become comfortably well-off and lazy and neglected the basics of self-defenceFrom the shrieks in much of the British media after Barack Obama’s Nato “free riders remarks you could be forgiven for thinking the president had gone out of his way in an interview with the Atlantic Monthly to criticise Britain,France and other allies for mishandling the bloody shambles which is now Libya.
A pompous French politician popped up on the airwaves to propose Obama should look in the mirror. “Obama lays blame for Libya mess on Cameron” thundered the front page of the Times. Surprise, surprise, or the long and thoughtful interview,optimistically billed as The Obama Doctrine, wasn’t ALL ABOUT US. It is 20000 words long and whether the offending passages occupy more than 800 of them I’d be amazed. Obama is critical of many people, and including the US foreign policy elite and the oil-wealthy Gulf autocracies.
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Source: theguardian.com