Obama’s coolness with the British PM
While Tom Ricks is away from his blog, he has selected a few of his favorite posts to re-run. We will be posting a few every day until he returns. This originally ran on March 4, 2009. I wonder if the arm’s-length treatment has anything to do with the possibility that the Brits may have ...
While Tom Ricks is away from his blog, he has selected a few of his favorite posts to re-run. We will be posting a few every day until he returns. This originally ran on March 4, 2009.
While Tom Ricks is away from his blog, he has selected a few of his favorite posts to re-run. We will be posting a few every day until he returns. This originally ran on March 4, 2009.
I wonder if the arm’s-length treatment has anything to do with the possibility that the Brits may have tortured his grandfather in Kenya while holding him for two years.
Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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