On the same day that the US started delivering the latest batch of F16s to Pakistan President Obama sacked General McChrystal who was overseeing the war in Afghanistan. Seems that an article in Rolling Stones magazine quoted the general making disparaging remarks about Obama and Vice President Biden. The general had apologised publicly for his error but was sacked anyway. Obama may feel that he is a big boss who can throw his weight around but now that he has freed the general is how is he going to control him. If the war in Afghanistan starts to go sour or if a lot of soldiers are killed, which is a real possibility, then the general could suddenly become a star who had had been sacked by a vindictive president for being right. Having blathered his way to the White House Obama is suddenly finding that action is much more difficult than hot air. The explosion in the Gulf of Mexico was bad luck but he was wrong to think that he could handle it with hot air. On the one hand people are very very angry about the delay in controlling the oil spill, on the other hand they are angry at the moratorium on new wells in the gulf because it means no jobs to be had. His attempts at dumping all the blame on BP, a British oil giant and his intemperate language has made British people unhappy especially as they see no blame coming to US companies such as Halliburten. Being a slave nation the British can do nothing but if they sense unfairness in his handling of BP there could be public pressure to withdraw from Afghanistan. India should cancel Obama's proposed trip to India in protest against supplying arms to Pakistan but we will not. The tragedy of India is that the supine who supported Union Carbide still rule.