Peter as I live in France, but am an American, will point out to you that the French still don’t like Americans, it’s a jealousy thing. They want to have their cake and eat it too; free life. Obama looks like a little kid with free hand in a candy store whenever I have seen him on tv here (so much for a positive view of Americans). I dobt very much that Obama will be able to bring about the participation of European allies in Afghanistan. Here in France when it became clear that Obama would win, the news programs immediately began to show anti Afghan war propaganda, like it was wrong for the west to be in Afghanistan. After the beating of that young girl for talking to a boy (imagine), still nothing is worth dying for. Give it up, Obama isn’t going to fix anything unless the US can disappear and the Europeans can continue as is. Plus, many Europeans saw the election of Obama as the death of capitalism, and the revindication of socialism. Not these are economic theories, and the economy is what should prove the theory…
