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    The photo on the White House website of the event had Obama and Hilary Clinton, who was speaking into a mike, but Gordon, oh perhaps that was the top of his head poking out behind Hilary....Says it all.

    Our special relationship was/is based on the capability of our armed forces and our status as the USA's no 1 ally.

    After 12 years of underfunding the performance of our overstretched armed forces is suffering and its capability reducing relative the the USA's capability. Also the USA ddo not see enough of a commitment to supporting our mission in Afghanistan, insufficient troops to do the job simply not being able to make progress.

    All this has significantly undermined our 'special relationship'.

    In addition of course the Brown visit is a non-event in the USA. Brown is seen as a leader who will soon, within 15 months, be out of office, so that has in effect downgraded the visit and while Brown might want to associate himself with Obama's success, Obama does not want to get too close to a failing PM and get tainted.

    It is a sad state of affairs. I would almost feel sorry for Brown if he was not the man responsible entirely for bringing this situation about.

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