by Robert Kagan
Israelis shouldn’t feel that they have been singled out. In Britain, people are talking about the end of the “special relationship”
In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy has openly criticized Obama for months
In Eastern and Central Europe, there has been fear since the administration canceled long-planned missile defense installations in Poland and the Czech Republic that the United States may no longer be a reliable guarantor of security.
…is more of an Asian president. The Asians, however, are not so sure. Relations with Japan are rocky.
This administration pays lip-service to “multilateralism,” but it is a multilateralism of accommodating autocratic rivals, not of solidifying relations with longtime democratic allies.
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