Word: nato
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...initiated the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to provide Turkey and Greece with the economic and military support necessary to keep them out of the Soviet sphere of influence. Turkey fought side by side with the U.S. in the Korean War. And the two nations have been NATO allies since 1952. But recently the relationship has come under strain. First the U.S. Congress threatened to pass a controversial resolution condemning Turkey for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the final days of the Ottoman Empire. Now Turkey's Islamist government is feuding with the pro-American Kurds...
...Germany; in the early years of World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt worried that the Free French leader Charles de Gaulle had "all the attributes of a dictator." The past 60 years have had several rocky patches. The low points were 1966, when De Gaulle took France out of NATO'S military command, and 2003, when Jacques Chirac declined to join the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In response to Chirac's decision, the restaurants and snack bars of the House of Representatives began calling sliced, fried potatoes "freedom fries" (they reverted to "French fries" in 2006 as enthusiasm...
...directly at odds with what Washington wants. Nor would Bush have much time for Sarko's complaints about the disparities in the dollar-euro exchange rate. Instead, expect the two men to emphasize their agreement (hardly new) on fighting the good fight in Afghanistan, gradual French reintegration within NATO, and doing something about thuggery in Darfur and Burma...
...University, and the choice between engagement or containment. Jonathan M. Padilla ’11 and Sahand Moarefy ’10, who represented the Dems in the debate, stressed the importance of diplomatic resolution to international conflicts. “We have to work within multinational institutions like NATO and the U.N.,” Padilla said. Moarefy too emphasized this approach, advocating for a thorough use of all diplomatic means before taking military action, including open dialogue with leaders such as Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. “The whole point of diplomacy is to address...
...places his or her abstract beliefs above any pragmatic concerns. In the case of Paul, he has such a profound distaste for the federal government and its role in our lives and in the lives of others around the world that he supports withdrawal from the United Nations and NATO, wants to eliminate the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Department of Education, Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and the Federal Reserve. Yet, despite these radical views, his YouTube channel boasts over 5 million views and he has more money in his campaign...