[Olog-hai]

Remember back in 2009 when Obama said he was “extraordinarily impressed by” European leadership? Brussels is never led by the White House, especially with this fellow in the WH.

[ScaniaBoy]

I really should have remembered this but didn’t. Thanks for reminding me. European leadership! What an oxymoron! But coming from this WH, what else to expect.

[ScaniaBoy]

Brussels is never led by the White House, especially with this fellow in the WH.

You are probably right. Here are two tiny pieces of information that could indicate the same thing.

1) I heard that the Swedish Defence Language Institute just had started training in French. (Previously Russian and Arabic were the two main languages. Sweden is a member of EU.)

2) From the blog Diplomad 2.0 we find this in a leaked (unclassified) document from the State Department: "FSI has developed Urdu ALERT – and is creating a French ALERT course (for HTPs in Francophone Africa) to begin this summer."

Tentative conclusion: If we aren't there already we are ("all of us") on our way to the former French colonies in central Africa to help the French. Isn't that nice.

PS: The Diplomad post is intersting in its own right. A good blog to follow.