Tuesday, October 29, 2013
"World’s anger at Obama policies goes beyond Europe and the NSA"
I guess we could say things have gotten pretty much out of hand...
Hannah Allam and Jonathan S. Landay of McClatchy's Washington Bureau elaborate on this story:
"Whether miffed over spying revelations or feeling sold out by U.S. moves in the Middle East, some of the United States’ closest allies are so upset that the Obama administration has gone into damage-control mode to ensure the rifts don’t widen and threaten critical partnerships.
The quarrels differ in their causes and degrees of seriousness. As a whole, however, they pose a new foreign policy headache for an administration whose overseas track record is seen in many quarters at home and abroad as reactive and lacking direction.
In Europe and the Middle East, rifts that once would’ve been quietly smoothed over have exploded into headlines and public remonstrations."
