"it is pretty cowardly"

U.S. military in Britain lifts London travel ban

LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force on Tuesday rescinded an order banning its personnel from visiting London in the wake of last week's bomb attacks, after a wave of public scorn and indignation.
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Anthony King, a political analyst at Essex University, told Reuters the original U.S. decision had been a "gross over-reaction."

"It gives the impression that American airmen and America in general is rather feeble. I think from a public relations point of view it was a serious mistake."
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Ann Redmon, an Anglo-American working in London, was one of them.

"It is pretty cowardly, given the support Britain has given them in Iraq," she told
Reuters while observing the many messages of goodwill left at the station.

In an editorial, the Daily Mail newspaper slammed the military ban as "timid"
coming after President Bush had pledged Britons could count on America.

"It was business as usual in brave and resilient London yesterday -- though not if you were a member of the world's most powerful military machine," the newspaper said.

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What kind of message is that to send to our closest allies?!