MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator...
it was too late to change anything.The sharp-tongued British newspapers were quick to put two and two together. The Brits have never had a particular liking for the "unruly Yankees" and have always mocked George Bush's ignorance, but in this case they thought it beneath them to even mention the fact that no spectacular results could be expected from the visit or Brown's talks with a "lame duck" president (Bush has a good chance of going down in history as the most unpopular U.S. President). The newspapers did not even bother to inject the usual note of anti-American sarcasm. They didn't need to because there was Gordon Brown.
But George Bush did not disappoint either. On the eve of the visit, Bush seemed to have been unable to remember who the current British prime minister was and whom he was about to entertain. A couple of days before his meeting with Brown, when asked by journalists at the White House to describe the "special relationship" between
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