Sarkozy: International Summits of Talk and No Decisions Are Over

Sarko also said the new US strategy in Afghanistan “mirrors what Europeans have been asking for for months and years now. This is what Europe has been triumphing.”
Finally a USA President that has the respect of world leaders!!!

It is easy to praise how easy it is to work with Obama when they can so easily say “NO” to him and Obama rolls over and thanks them for not helping more.
Bottom line: Obama went to get more troops and they all said no.
Afghanistan is Obama’s war.

i agree with you, Judson. not only does Obama have the respect of world leaders but he repects them as well. the world is starting to like the US again.

“the world is starting to like the US again.”
If they like us so much, why are they not willing to send any combat troops as Obama wanted?

“we’ve been losing wars since Viet Nam.’
What do you know about war? In what war did you fight?

do we have oil in afghanistan or are we going to make it point of sales for arms

Ah yes, actions speak louder than words…. That would sum it up nicely — don’t you think?

The NATO strategy appears to be :
Flatter Obama publicly in the media, make him feel very important and smart as a world leader, and then give him the bad news about no combat troops.
This will preserve his popular image among our students and give him a way to explain his failure to get combat troops in positive terms to his fans..

“France and Germany are a force to be reckoned with.” Sure, as long as the U.S. does the heavy lifting with combat troops. U.S. citizens, and the citizens of Europe, must never forget that it was the U.S. that freed Europe from tyranny. It’s about time that Europe does some of the harder, more expensive work.

“You can tell the leaders of Europe are positively gleeful with the arrival of Obama. ”
I can tell you are positively giddy about Obama, too.

Why would anyone think that the Socialist leaders of Socialist countries would not like our Socialist President ? “Birds of a feather…”.

Yes yes yes. Obama is personally very popular. Everyone loved Bill Clinton too, remember?
But even with all that love toward the US in the 90′s, countries secretly developed nuclear arms, and alQaeda attacked our embassies, the Cole, the WTC (1993), and plotted 9/11.
Having our President be loved (while he’s popular) in public doesn’t translate to much.

The marbled doors of Wall Street, and the mortgage
companies, and the insurance companies, and Congress,
and the marbled doors of the White House, and IBM,
and Microsoft, and Harpo Productions; and the marbled
doors of Kodak, and Corning, and Johnson and Johnson;
and the marbled doors of peanut factory headquarters,
and pharmaceuticals, and Arthur Andersen, and Chase Bank,
and Lawyers Coop, and the Pentagon, and network tv,
and the Republican National Committee, as well as the
marbled doors of the big three automakers, and the
Democratic National Committee and the national banks;
are all guarded by armed policemen, outside.
Tell me something, if those policemen are there to stop
crime and catch criminals, ain’t they on the wrong side
of the door?

“Yeah, cuz the Europeans are real good at winning war strategies.”
Europeans have been fighting, winning (and losing) religious wars, internal and interantional wars for eras – much longer than the US has been a country.
It would be “arrogant” and naive of us, not to respect or acknowledge their historical perspective.
Europeans are rightfully very upset with America for allowing the Taliban to get stronger while we were distratced in Iraq. Obama has moved us forward and that is a positive step.
I read on another post a quote that self examination is not disloyalty or treason. I couldn’t agree more.
This faux outrage over what Obama said is ridiculous. I can’t wait to see Glenn Beck’s water-works and what Colbert will do with that. ;)
Obama also called the Europeans out on their anti-Americanism.
This is basic negotiating 101. If you want a dictator, you live in the wrong country…

People just want to cooperate with us. We are not better than others. Let stop thinking that people have to give us whatever we want and if not then they hate us. Maybe if we drop some of our arrogance they will listen to us a bit more.

america arrogant people who cling to their guns and religion

It’s interesting there’s so many people in here concerned about thier tax dollars, when a huge swath of unemployed and underemployed pay little to no taxes. another huge swath of middle class get tax credits for everything under the sun from church contributions, to weatherizing their homes to having children to the interest on thier expensive mortgages to flat out lying on their taxes, then the rich classes, if they manage to pay taxes at all, just incorporate, call everything a business expense, been hiding money offshore for years, and for a while didn’t have to pay taxes on thier free stock money nor did their adult children have to pay taxes as they just handed off millions to them (imagine being filthy rich by sheer luck and not having to pay any taxes for your entire life)..that when you get down to it…how much federal taxes do we pay for civilization really? Not only are my taxes cut this year, but I’m expecting a tax credit or two as well. With any extra money I plan to invest while the investing’s good, which will in turn help the economy, generate more tax revenue, and put more people to work which generates more tax revenue. I’m not that worried about short term spending for long term gain. I think Obama has the right plan and it’s working. And lets not forget that he did in fact inherit this credit crises, medicare crises, social security crises, terrorist crises, global warming crises…this didn’t start yesterday, and it’s here becase we, yes US, the taxpayers are co-responsible for all of the above! We voted for little regulation, we got the credit crises. We voted to have prescription drugs added to an already overloaded medicare, we voted to not have medicare changed, we got a medicare crises. Social security reform has been tackled several times and defeated because senior citizens, the most active voting group, unite and put a stop to it. Global warming, you drive a car and use electricity don’t you? Attempts to change the country to green energy are met with the fiercest resistance of all, like it’s just some green thumb conspiracy (what conspiracy? why do we resist?). Terrorists, well it doesnt help when vote in warmongers who go blundering into the wrong countries looking for the wrong foe, making huge mistakes every step of the way, and creating more terrorists than they kill! I think Obama is doing all the right things right now. It sucks to have to go into debt to fix them, but we were going in debt creating them weren’t we Americans? The best thing we can do for our country is stay in school, get a good degree, be an entreprenuer, be a scientist, just be a smart person. That would help! Turn off Rush Limbaugh, the guy has no education and is as stupid as a post, and get your butt to making money and doing good things for your fellow people while your at it. That’s the American spirit! Lot of people got wealthy in just the last couple of weeks, folks! One door closes another one opens! What are you waiting for?

President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkle are so happy to be laying the ground work for sending their soldiers to Afghanistan. No? I thought they told Bama that he can go ahead though. I think this lugnut knows not what this is going do for his next election. You Dems can have another Vietnam. Yahoo!
Next you’ll have to start drafting soldiers. Everyone likes the Prez, but the’re not going over the cliff with him at anytime.

Nah. What did Obama negotiate? He went there to get combat troops and came up with zippo. This is called Basic Getting Rolled 101.
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Nah. It was widely published that NATO wwere not going to commit more troops before Obama went. He knew he wasn’t getting them, he asked anyway. What he achieved though was a consensus of what should or could be done. He manged to keep those troops already there, there. Basicaly it was lead, follow, or get out of the way. He got Follow.

“Per usual, Sarko praised President Obama to high heaven…”
What kind of journalism is this? And this guy’s a professional?

So, exactly what was Decided?
That as was their pre-summit position
France, Germany, and England refused
to send any more “combat” troops and
would only send 5,000 combined troops
from all NATO members for support and
Afgan police training?
In other words The president got ZIP!
What we have here is European
“cheerleading” for President Obama!
Sarkozy and Merkel forgot to show us
their pom poms!
Nothing was accomplished regarding
Afganistan since our troops will
continue to sacrifice their lives while
our so-called NATO allies stay away
from the battlefield.
Regarding the global recession our
G-20 partners rejected the presidents
call for more spending by each country!
So how was this trip a success? The “photo ops” and cheerleading
don’t count!

keredte- it’s true. Sarko is effusive and full of platitudes for Obama. There’s nothing wrong with reporting that. He just doesn’t give Obama what he wants.

I agree with the post that Obama’s “popularity” is not necessarily going to be positive for American interest in the long run.Clinton was popular also,and his soft approach towards terrorist opened the door for terror cells to grow and ultimately led to the attack on 9/11.I want to know why Obama doesn’t remind the Europeans about all the good Americans have done through history,recuing them from Nazi rulers and communism,and it’s Americans who are always first on the scene after disasters to lead aid and fight for liberty for all.Instead of highlighting to nobel causes for liberty and freedom around the world,Obama said that we were “arrogant”.Is he President of the United States or ruler of the world?

“Instead of highlighting to nobel causes for liberty and freedom around the world,Obama said that we were “arrogant”.”
Did you actually watch the speech?

“Clinton was popular also,and his soft approach towards terrorist opened the door for terror cells to grow and ultimately led to the attack on 9/11.”
It apparently wasn’t as soft as Bush’s approach toward the terrorists. When Clinton’s people warned him that a major attack was being planned Bush just ignored it.

President Obama has had the common sense and leadership quality to set the groundwork for repairing the enormous damage caused by the Bush/Chaney administration abroad. He has also set in motion the ONLY plan that will revive our economy and put U.S citizens back to work. President Obama has been in office a little over two and a half months and our Stock Market is beginning to stabilize just as our standing in the world community has begun to improve greatly. It is unpatriotic and mean spirited to call president Obama names and wish him harm and failure just because he is not white or Republican.

Jake – care to report on the fact that the Europeans rejected sending additional combat troops to Afganistan – one primary basis of Obama’s campaigning about better European relations being useful for America?
And as for Sarkozy et al saying how nice it is to have Obama instead of Bush, and how great it is to have a President saying he wants a strong EU, I give you 2005, as Bush toured Europe:
BRUSSELS: By astutely sidestepping controversial issues and stressing his support for a strong Europe, President George Bush has succeeded in improving the mood in once-sour transatlantic relations.
Nothing substantial came out of the NATO summit, and this article is regurgitated Obama press office spin. Note the reference to non-Obama officials as a source – that’s the tip off that the entire article was a setup from Obama’s people with a source handed to Jake on a silver platter that is “outside” the Obama administration.
Pure contrived administration tripe masquerading as journalism.

“Iraq was an illegal and unjust war because we went there for oil” If we went there for the oil, where is the oil? Who controls the oil? Sigmond
In the hours and days before the United States and Britain invaded Iraq, a team of British Petroleum (BP) engineers in Kuwait taught combat troops from the 516 Specialist Team Royal Engineers how to run the oil fields in southern Iraq. As soon as the troops had secured southern Iraq, Robert Spears, a Scottish manager from BP, was drafted by the British government to help direct the effort to rebuild the refineries.
In mid-July BP took possession of its reward — one of the first tankers of oil from Southern Iraq, having won 25% of the initial sale of 8 million barrels of the existing stockpiles of Iraqi oil. The previous month California-based Chevron shipped back an equal quantity of oil from southern Iraq.
We have been stealing their oil every since.

Yep, Europe decided not to support Obama and send combat troops to Afghanistan and Obama decided not to press them on it.
They also decided that this was Obama’s war and they will gladly let him do it alone.
Decisions, decisions, decisions.