"Panic At The Pentagon"?
There's an air of unreality in UK reactions to the withdrawal of US B-1 bombers from Fairford. Here's a "BBC expert" : On Radio 4’s Today programme, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said: “The unexpected mass withdrawal of America’s heavy bombers from RAF Fairford has happened so suddenly, it hints at something approaching panic in the Pentagon. “There must be concerns in Washington that the US cannot risk catastrophic damage to another one of its high-value aircraft.” Gardner said the US decision to remove its bombers suggested there was “clearly a new threat on top of the existing one”. He said: “The US is still heavily bruised about the damage done to its high value aircraft in the Middle East by Iranian precision strikes. “This must be a huge shock to it that bases in its closest ally, the UK, are not as safe as they thought they were. So they’ve pulled them all the way back to the continent of the United States.” Gardner said it “will be a...