The Ducking Pantywaist

clipped from blogs.telegraph.co.uk President Barack Obama has recently completed the most successful foreign policy tour since Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. Barack is not the first New World ingenue to discover that European leaders will load him with praise, struggle sycophantically to be photographed with him and outdo him in Utopian rhetoric. But when it comes to the critical moment of opening their wallets - suddenly it is flag-day in Aberdeen. Okay, put the G20 down to inexperience, beginner's nerves, what you will. So The One retired triumphant, having secured a massive contribution of 5,000 extra troops - all of them non-combatant, of course President Pantywaist is hopping mad and he has a strategy to cut Kim down to size: he is going to slice $1.4bn off America's missile defence programme, presumably on the calculation that Kim would feel it unsporting to hit a sitting duck, so that will spoil his fun.