A comprehensive Euro-American plan, with the U.S. offering carrots for a successful outcome while the Europeans pledge to threaten Iran with genuine sticks if the talks fail, would illustratetransatlantic cooperation at its best, increase the chances forgenuine diplomatic success, and cut the Gordian knot by focusing,first and foremost, on the pressing Iranian nuclear question.
I have found through my constant exposure to them through the years that the EU’s intellectual cheerleaders among geopolitical analysts funded as they so often are by the very institution they are supposed to be impartially analyzing are as numerous as they are clueless.
A Europe in which national sovereignty remains paramount regardingforeign and security policy, and states act flexibly rather thancollectively wherever possible, will enable America to engage thecontinent most successfully. This flexibility, in internationalinstitutions or ad hoc coalitions of the willing, is the future ofthe transatlantic relationship because it fits the objectiverealities of the continent.
In my experience, the widely quoted adage about America’s capital “You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog” makes a fair point; imagine a city populated entirely by high school student council presidents. Nevertheless, in my glory days in D.C. I managed to buck the odds and acquire a number of great colleagues who I have remained close to over the 16 years I have run my
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