APART from the Union Flag flying upside down in the breeze at Andrews air force base in Washington, everything seemed to be going according to plan last week when President Barack Obama welcomed Prime Minister David Cameron.
It was going to be a demanding three days with business as well as pleasure on the agenda, and above all both sides were hailing it as the latest manifestation of the much vaunted "special relationship" – the tie binding the US and the UK which has its origins in the second world war. Both leaders had a lot of catching up to do and both had to find common ground to deal with Afghanistan, the foreign policy millstone which hangs round both of their necks.
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