Well there's no sitting on the fence by Gen Odierno with those remarks is there.
Britain is becoming a friend who can't be trusted, says top US general - Telegraph
I wonder if anybody in Whitehall will take note? Probably not, too busy working out how much they can claim in allowances when they lose their seat at the election, or how they can use their position to drum up a second salary.
I'd suggest that what we really need is some sort of embarrassing defeat or loss of face to make them realise how bad things are, but we've tried that already with Iraq and Afghanistan, swiftly followed by letting Russian subs amble about the coast whilst ignoring Ukraine, and generating so few jets for Baltic policing and Shader that I'm sure I've got digits to spare when counting them. None of that catalogue of national disgrace seems to have done anymore than raise a ripple in the PM's morning coffee.
