Far from bending to his will, a large majority of Israelis perceives Obama as a hostileforce and has rallied in support of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu against the administration.
According to the BBC's business editor, ABN will not want to halt the sale of LaSalle, and will view RBS as "a hostile invading force rather than an institution trying to offer more money to its owners than Barclays".
And if soldiers still have to be sent, the Air Force has a good story to tell now about how it will support and protect them (no hostile aircraft has managed to kill a U.S. soldier since the Korean War due to American control of the skies).