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...which include hours of footage of NATO forces in Afghan villages, highlighting projects such as health clinics and schools. "I didn't even know the [Afghan] provinces when I came to NATO five years ago," joked outgoing Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at a NATO Youth Forum in Strasbourg, France, on Thursday. "Now I think I know them...
...NATO lost its credibility when it refused to commit the resources needed," says Barkawi. After several appeals by then President George W. Bush for more combat troops from Europe failed to secure significant reinforcements, the Obama Administration has made clear that it won't even bother to ask in Strasbourg this weekend. In Europe, says De Hoop Scheffer, a former Dutch politician, "fighting is not very popular...
...detractors - Europe's feisty antiwar organizations. Six years after millions of Europeans took to the streets to demonstrate against U.S. plans to invade Iraq, the protest of the latest NATO summit is a sorry affair by comparison. Some 1,000 activists are camped in tents on the edge of Strasbourg in the so-called anti-NATO village, vowing to disrupt this weekend's summit. Several hundred of them, their faces hidden behind black ski masks, gathered in the camp on Thursday afternoon under a warm sun, preparing to storm into Strasbourg. Several stuffed empty glass bottles under black sweatshirts before...
...outdated military. Therefore, a new energy security policy—one that effectively minimizes the risk of overt dependency on Russia while investing in alternative and renewable technologies—should be at the top of the agenda at the alliance’s annual meeting in Strasbourg, France, and Kehl, Germany, this weekend...
...with the U.S., but some E.U. members, like Austria, Belgium and Portugal, do not even have an accredited resident ambassador in Kabul, undercutting their governments' proclamations of support for non-military policies. Afghanistan is also expected on the agenda when Obama meets fellow NATO leaders at their summit in Strasbourg-Kehl on April...