Ah - see Europeans have rejected Obama's call for help re Afghanistan - not that there's anything shocking about that - what I'm wondering is if the big speech he gave in Strasbourg the day before being rejected by NATO, where he called for a brave new world free of nuclear armaments, I'm wondering if he was really serious about such an impossible and foolishly naive thing or whether it was just his way of saying 'Hey, my Euro brothers, the cowboys are back on the ranch and the good guys are running things again, so lets all smile and join hands and move the the great enlightenment forward - oh, and by the way, since we're all such good friends now, wouldn't mind some help blowing stuff up in Afghanistan'.
What I'm saying is, was he being a stooge in thinking it is possible or even wise to attempt getting the nuke genie back in the bottle or a stooge in thinking that by sounding all post-modern and
progressive that he could somehow charm the Euros into getting their hands dirty in Afghanistan? Christ, I hope it ain't both.
update: appears now the Euros will be sending some help - but minor and only on the policing side, not war fighting - and so obviously this 'offer' was all along their fallback position so as to not look unreasonable.
