| Among the highlights: •A summit in London of 20 economic powers that worked to find a coordinated way to bring the world economy out of a tailspin. •A summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization at which fellow government leaders cheered Obama's new strategy for the war in Afghanistan, but committed additional troops only to guard elections and train Afghans, not to fight al Qaida. •An agreement with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to negotiate a new treaty further slashing both countries' nuclear arsenals. •A proposal to curb all nuclear weapons and keep them out of the hands of non-nuclear powers such as Iran. |
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| Reginald Dale, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a national-security research center in Washington, wasn't among those laughing. He called Obama's trip a disappointment. "It was very strong on glamour and presentation but much less so on substance," Dale said. "To draw an analogy, it reminded me a bit of an Easter egg: very colorful, but when you open it up, it's hollow." He said: •Obama came up short at the G-20 summit when other countries refused to commit more money to stimulus spending on the scale the United States has done under Obama. •The president failed to win combat troops from NATO. •His lofty goal of a world free of all nuclear weapons "is largely irrelevant to the world's problems at the moment and impossible to achieve in the foreseeable future." •"He let the Europeans set the agenda on international regulation. He let them define what their response would be on Afghanistan." In both cases Obama said it was a wonderful success, "which it clearly wasn't," Dale said. |
He was great at sucking up while putting down America which Euros and the rest of the world loves to hear all the time. But on real issues, zip.
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