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!