Funny thing is, the Europeans don't seem to be that happy about this gelding of America when it comes to Afghanistan where our president is talking and debating, and giving every appearance of wanting to abandon efforts to win the "good war" there:
In conversations with senior European officials visiting Washington, and at a transatlantic conference sponsored by Italy's Magna Carta Foundation last weekend, I heard an earful of Euro-anxiety about the strategy review Obama is conducting. Some of the concern is simply about the spectacle of a young American president hesitating about going forward with a strategy that he committed himself to just months ago -- and what effect that wavering might have on enemies both in Afghanistan and farther afield.
But a surprising amount of the worry, considering the continental source, is about whether Obama will be strong enough -- whether he will, in the words of one ambassador, "walk away from a mission that we have all committed ourselves to."
Oh those whacky Europeans! Now they tell us they don't like an America that wavers in questions of war? And they wonder what effect this will have on enemies?
The strong horse is never gelded. Our enemies are drawing their conclusions every day.
