BP - the American failing

Why Obama is wrong to hammer BP

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The British press headlines are screaming: "Obama's boot on the throat of the British pensioner". The US president is referring scathingly, to "British Petroleum", not "BP", as the major monster polluter in the Gulf of Mexico. An increasingly hysterical tone is quite deliberately infusing the US Administration's targeting of the Foreign Offender.

Are we terrified? No, we are not. Are we ashamed? No, we accept (as BP has), a degree of responsibility. What we are, already, is a bit embarrassed for President Obama. He has disappointed us. In B...

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