Batting Down Britain

The United Kingdom has been and is America's greatest ally of consequence since the First World War. Gordon Brown and his predecessor Tony Blair took much domestic criticism including from within the ranks of their own Labour Party because of Britain's steadfast stand with America in both Afghanistan and Iraq. To reward Britain for their loyalty, the Obama administration sent Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the US version of foreign minister to Argentina to undermine the United Kingdom's long-standing and legitimate claim to the Falkland Islands. Talk about American gratitude and trying to cut Gordon Brown's throat just at the time of a coming UK general election- US conduct  is just not cricket.