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...Raulista, Rodriguez remains a relatively unknown entity in the Castro hierarchy. As experts like Mora point out, it's too soon to tell if Raúl chose Rodriguez with a proactive U.S.-Cuba mission in mind or simply to have a professional but nondescript bureaucrat warm the Foreign Minster's seat. Raúl already consults a small core of foreign policy veterans on U.S. policy, including Jorge Bolaños, Cuba's de facto ambassador in Washington, and Fernando Remírez de Estenoz, one of Cuba's most respected diplomats and the foreign relations point man inside...
...delivers his own, like releasing jailed dissidents, surely knows he'll have to give a little on his side to crack the embargo. The Cuban Taliban was certainly not the man for a diplomatic challenge like that. So if Raúl is smart, he chose his new Foreign Minister to be more than just a figurehead - and if Obama is wise, the White House will make the effort to engage the new man at Cuba's Foreign Ministry...
...Friday after he was inaugurated, Barack Obama held a full-scale National Security Council meeting about the most serious foreign policy crisis he is facing - the deteriorating war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. "It was a pretty alarming meeting," said one senior Administration official. "The President was extremely cool and in control," said another participant. "But some people, especially political aides like Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod who hadn't been briefed on the situation, walked out of that meeting stunned." The general feeling was expressed by one person who said at the very end, "Holy...
Just six weeks into Obama's presidency, Europeans are already fretting over the fact that he has yet to visit Europe. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has flown west for her first foreign trip, spending a week in Asia last month before traveling to the Middle East. Meanwhile, Obama has returned the Winston Churchill bust that sat in the Oval Office for the past eight years to the British. Indeed, some Europeans brood that the new President's only nod toward them came with the family decision to adopt a Portuguese water dog. (See pictures of presidential dogs...
...they are parsed with dutiful solemnity. Hence the significance of Clinton's visit to Brussels today to meet European Union and NATO ministers and officials. "Europeans never miss an opportunity to read bad omens in a new President," says Daniel Korski, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. "But if there is one word for Obama's foreign policy, it is engagement. He will want European help in dealing with the financial crisis. He will become more involved in NATO. And to make these initiatives work, he will want a coordinated and integrated Europe...