'Interesting' opening paragraph by freelancer Michael Hastings

"He's in France to sell his new war strategy to our NATO allies – to keep up the fiction, in essence, that we actually have allies.
Since McChrystal took over a year ago, the Afghan war has become the exclusive property of the United States"

So, no mention of the 9000 UK troops or the 307 fatalities to date?

Actually it was Barack Obama who declared last year that America has "shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive" towards its allies.

Pity Hastings doesn't seem to have read that