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Della Gran-Bretagna del `alleato di Bush più vicino più'
Mercoledì 3 ottobre 2007
Da Toby Harnden La Casa Bianca più non osserva la Gran-Bretagna come relativo alleato più leale in Europa poiché Gordon Brown ha preso l'ufficio e preferibilmente sempre più sta girando verso la Francia e la Germania, secondo le fonti della gestione di Bush. “Ci è preoccupazione circa colore marrone,„ la Casa Bianca che maggiore il funzionario di politica straniera ha detto al telegrafo quotidiano. “Ma questo è compensato dal fatto che Parigi e Berlino sono molto di meno di un'emicrania. La necessità di munire tutto di cardini Londra come il garante di sicurezza europea è andato.„
Con Tony Blair ha partito, Nicolas Sarkozy, il presidente francese, è visto da molti come l'uomo George il W Bush inscatola il più bene fa il commercio con in Europa. Anche se Angela Merkel, il cancelliere tedesco, non ha vissuto fino alle aspettative iniziali a Washington, ancora è vista come lontano preferibile al suo predecessore Gerhard Schr? der. Il funzionario della Casa Bianca ha aggiunto che la Gran-Bretagna sarebbe sempre “la pietra angolare„ della politica degli Stati Uniti verso Europa ma ci era “unhappiness molto„ circa come le forze britanniche avevano effettuato a Bassora e un'accettazione che il sig. Brown tirerebbe le 4.500 truppe restanti da Irak anno successivo. “Funzionalmente, le forze britanniche hanno effettuato male a Bassora,„ ha detto il funzionario. “Forse è meglio che vanno. Ora avremo un campo libero in Irak del sud.„ Un altro funzionario della Casa Bianca ha descritto il sig. Brown come “challenging„ e molto vicino agli Stati Uniti che il sig. Blair. Ci è stato una riduzione notevole in contatto fra la via scolantesi e la Casa Bianca da quando il sig. Blair ha andato e funzionari degli Stati Uniti hanno rilevato su quanto pochi ministri britannici hanno visitato Washington negli ultimi mesi. Il sig. Brown ed il sig. Bush sono capiti per parlare due volte per telefono in tre mesi da quando hanno venuto a contatto di spesso settimanalmente all'accampamento David in giugno, mentre il sig. Blair ed il sig. Bush hanno tenuto i congressi di video-collegamento. Kurt Volker, a senior State Department official with responsibility for Europe, disagreed with the White House official’s view, arguing that the British withdrawal to the airport in Basra was a “tactical” decision and that the predicted chaos “hasn’t happened”. He told The Daily Telegraph that Mr Brown had shown “a lot more steadiness than maybe people expected” and while his style had been very different from that of Tony Blair there had been “a lot of consistency” over policy. But Mr Volker emphasised that “things are changing in Europe” and paid tribute to Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, both for visiting Iraq and for warning over Iran that the world had to “prepare for the worst and the worst is war”. “Kouchner’s comments were very helpful because what he is indicating is that this is serious. It’s not just a matter of playing out diplomacy forever with no result. It’s got to provide a result.” Privately, White House aides accept that Mr Brown would not support military action against Iran. There is also disquiet about what US officials view as double dealing by special advisers briefing an anti-White House message in London and a more favourable one in Washington. “That sort of manoeuvring is not appreciated,” said one diplomatic source. The wariness about Mr Brown could open doors to the Conservative Party. Owen Paterson, the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, recently met several key White House officials, including Barry Jackson, who recently took over many of Karl Rove’s duties as a policy adviser to Mr Bush. A British diplomatic source said: “In the White House there’s a sense of enormous change from Blair. They used to be on the phone to Blair all the time and that’s no longer the case because Brown clearly wants to be the unBlair. “At the Pentagon, there’s a feeling that Britain is letting the side down on Iraq. The new best friend is Sarkozy and that means Brown taking a step back doesn’t matter as much. In White House eyes, Sarkozy is taking up the slack from Blair. “When things get tough, however, they’re likely to turn to Britain again.” Have Your Say: Britain ‘no longer closest Bush ally’ Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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