Perspective

Krauthammer:  Romney's Excellent Foreign Trip.

Of course, you wouldn't know it if you only followed the legacy media.

Amateur Hour

White House caught peddling falsehoods about the Churchill bust Obama DID, in fact, return to Britain.
Hat tip to Instapundit.

Update:  The White House apologizes.

With the London Olympics Underway

A look at Obama's top ten United Kingdom Gaffes.

Me Too

Romney:  "I'm looking forward to the bust of Winston Churchill being in the Oval Office again."

Obama, of course, returned the Churchill bust, a symbol of the two nations' friendship following 9/11, to England shortly after assuming the presidency.

Still Spiking the Football

From The Guardian in Britain:

Detailed leaks of operational information about the foiled underwear bomb plot are causing growing anger in the US intelligence community, with former agents blaming the Obama administration for undermining national security and compromising the British services, MI6 and MI5.
The Guardian has learned from Saudi sources that the agent was not a Saudi national as was widely reported, but a Yemeni. He was born in Saudi Arabia, in the port city of Jeddah, and then studied and worked in the UK, where he acquired a British passport.

Mike Scheur, the former head of the CIA's Bin Laden unit, said the leaking about the nuts and bolts of British involvement was despicable and would make a repeat of the operation difficult. "MI6 should be as angry as hell. This is something that the prime minister should raise with the president, if he has the balls. This is really tragic," Scheur said.

Yet, as Professor Jacobson observed, this fits a larger pattern:

Whether it was naming Navy SEAL Team 6 as the group which killed bin Laden, or releasing details of how that mission was accomplished, leaking information which presents Obama in a good light is part of the political strategy.

You can’t properly spike a football without showing it to the crowd.  

Former U.K. Secretary of Defense Issues a Warning to America

Via Big Government:

Former U.K. Secretary of State and Defense Liam Fox explained that both Britain and America should be concerned about the impact our national debt has on our security. “The real issue is the indebtedness of Western nations,” he stressed, “Here in the United States, there is a certain irony in the fact that in order to maintain debt interest payment by the national government, America is having to cut its security budget so that some of that money on the debt interest ends up in Moscow and Beijing.” He underscored to the need for serious reforms to tackle what he described as our “absolutely unsustainable” level of national debt. Western economies, he warned “are up to their necks in debt and if they don’t do something about it, [they] will drown in that debt.”

Of course, this is directly in line with last year's warning from Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, who said "that the continually increasing debt is the biggest threat we have to our national security.”  Do you think Barack Obama is paying any attention?  $5 TRILLION and counting.

(Updated to include link to Adm. Mullen quote.)