November 29, 2010 By James Kimer

“Necessary, but Not Indispensable”

Writing in the New York Times, John Vinocur notes the peculiar silence at the Lisbon NATO summit on the subject of France’s sale of the Mistral warships to Russia.

A coda: the high-pressure gush at Lisbon was successfully slip-streamed by France so that in the midst of all the self-congratulatory talk no one uttered a word about French efforts to sell the Russian Navy two helicopter-carrying assault ships, a NATO first. The French could certainly cheer, Long live Mr. Obama’s reset!