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Rabat, Morocco "Any place in the Arabic-speaking world sends a message of outreach and dialogue," says Hooper. The North African kingdom has been a steady U.S. ally in the war on terrorism, a fact that led then President George W. Bush to designate Morocco a major non-NATO ally. King Mohammed VI is generally pro-West and viewed as a reformer. A speech in Rabat would resonate especially with North African nations like Algeria and Tunisia, where fundamentalism and terrorism are on the rise. But Morocco does not carry much clout in Islamic affairs. If Jakarta...
...about "keeping the Germans down"? Surely that is old hat 64 years after the end of World War II? In the old days, the U.S. had to promise to keep troops in Europe in order to gain its allies' assent - especially that of France - to West German rearmament and NATO membership. The U.S. had to balance power not only on the outside, but also on the inside. Just by being there, the U.S. acted as twin counterweight. With its enormous power it reassured Europe against the Soviet Union and also against a rising Germany, which was always...
...clearly prepared to run against him for the Elysée in the 2012 elections. Former Prime Minister and long-time foe Dominique de Villepin has been seemingly omnipresent on French TV and radio second-guessing Sarkozy's thrifty economic stewardship and denouncing his decision to return France to NATO's integrated military command. (Read a TIME story on NATO...
Headlines blared "Russia versus NATO" in Europe and the U.S., raising the old specter of the Cold War. But the Obama Administration did not seem to be concerned. "It looked like the comments of the President of Russia were largely for domestic consumption," White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters on Tuesday. Analysts, in fact, believe that, far from picking a fight with NATO, Medvedev was using the western alliance as a weapon to prod his own military into much needed reform. (See Russia celebrating its military might, Soviet-style...
...most dramatic in the last 40 years. "You cannot tell these officers that they will have to be cut because Russia wants to make friends with the U.S.," says Dmitri Trenin the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. "You have to tell them they have been cut because NATO poses a serious threat, and we need to improve our armed forces to be able to protect ourselves...