Washington must adopt a pragmatic, realistic approach towardworking with Germany. Realpolitik should be the order of the day.As the EU member with the largest economy and largest population,Germany is simply too important to be ignored. It is in the U.S.interest to engage Berlin on an issue-by-issue basis, workingtogether where agreement can be reached.
In an effort to create "one telephone line" to Europe, the EU's proposed Lisbon Treaty, successor to the European Constitution, would remove foreign policy from the intergovernmental sphere andmake it a supranational EU competence. An EU foreign policy will becharacterized by inaction, Franco-German dominance, and an attemptto limit American power.
Few Americans will have heard of John McDonnell MP. Yet a demonstration he attended in support of Guantanamo Bay detainees outside the U.S. Embassy in London last week shows why they should begin to take notice. This far-left firebrand is now just a Conservative government implosion away from becoming the second most powerful politician in the UK, and that spells bad news for U.S.-UK relations.