News from over in the United Kingdom this morning: “Asked on Monday whether RAF Fairford was safe, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: ‘Yes.’”

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That assurance is a little harder to believe now than a few weeks ago, particularly now that the U.S. has withdrawn all its B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford, and in particular, how those bombers were withdrawn, at least as described by sources to the New York Times:

The need to move the bombers out of the base, R.A.F. Fairford, was deemed so urgent that some of the planes and their flight crews left while aerial refueling aircraft were still being scrambled to support their flights to the United States. At least three of the planes had landed at their home base in South Dakota by Sunday, the officials........

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