A lonely world: Where are Obama’s foreign confidants?
By Jackson Diehl | Monday, March 8, 2010 | The Washington Post
“…The paradox here is that Obama remains hugely popular abroad — from Germany and France to countries where anti-Americanism has recently been a problem, such as Turkey and Indonesia. His following means that, in democratic countries at least, leaders have a strong incentive to befriend him. And yet this president appears, so far, to have no genuine foreign friends. In this he is the opposite of George W. Bush, who was reviled among the foreign masses but who forged close ties with a host of leaders — Aznar of Spain, Uribe of Colombia, Sharon and Olmert of Israel, Koizumi of Japan….”….BS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/07/AR2010030702690_pf.html
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