"An interesting editorial in the NYT. The key takeaways are that the EU, but especially Germany, need to re-arm and recognize that military force is at times a necessary option, and the the EU is going to be dependent on USA arms and money for a long time to come. "
I have a small amount of respect for Barak Obama for one reason, and one reason only...
When he was awarded his Nobel Peace Participation Prize for doing absolute jack *expletive deleted*it and gave his acceptance speech you could literally see the almost orgasmic induced pleasure on the faces of the guests as he started his speech. They were SURE that he was going to deliver a crushing repudiation of American warmongering and that the US would finally get in line with all of the enlightened Euroweenies. I suspect that a lot of them were even expecting a sniveling crying apology for the United States being the world's worst country...
And then he got to the passage that said, essentially, yes, war is a nasty, bad thing. But sometimes war is the only option, even the just option, and the United States reserves the right to go to war to protect our interests and our people.
You could see the shock and crushing defeat in their eyes. It was almost as bad as if John Holmes had whipped out his... better half... and slapped the King and Queen of Norway across the face with it.
