>>>Europe without American leadership is a mere tourist destination.
And not even that for much longer if Iran gets it's nuclear arsenal.
Garbage from Dicky Cohen. Quite the contrary, The US is exerting more leadership in the Middle East than it ever has.
Oh those Oslo accords now that was a stroke of leadership that accomplished NOTHING.
How about that leadership we showed when our people were taken hostage in '79 or our barracks were attacked in Beirut.
Who cares if in Dicky Cohen's mind we are loathed, what we are is the only major power that the Middle East respects and fears.
And tell me Dicky, what would we be accomplishing if Saddam had not been neutralized. What leverage would that give us versus the current Hezbollah assault on Israel.
Another pointless article from the WaPo.
What if Brittan and France had placed forces in 1938 Poland? Germany would have known that to attack Poland was to be at war with the allies and the USSR would have been forced to make a choice.
The allies in 1938 did not have that option but Bush in 2003 did.
The leadership it once was able to exert -- especially in the Middle East -- is a thing of the past..What's striking about Ferguson's account of 1938 is the almost total absence of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The American president is almost never mentioned -- sidelined by the Great Depression and, more important, American isolationism
So FDR was ineffective because of Isolaionism, and Bush is ineffective because he wasn't isolationist.
Sorry, Cohen, but try as you might, the blame lies with the UN in general and France in particular. Oh, and the past leadership you pine for? That's your illusion as well. Clinton's policies led directly to where we are today - seeking temporary peace that is nothing more than deferred war.
The war to end all wars only created more.