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In Britain, pomp for Obama but serious business too
"The British are disappointed that the US seems only to be half-committed to this battle," said Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform in London. "The view goes that even if the US felt it had to make withdrawals, to say so in public would allow Gaddafi to relax and think that the US didn't really want to get rid of him."