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Government
Champ snubs NATO chief as crisis rages.
2015-03-25
[Bloomberg] President Champ has yet to meet with the new head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and won't see Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg this week, even though he is in Washington for three days. Stoltenberg's office requested a meeting with the Champ well in advance of the visit, but never heard anything from the White House, two sources close to the NATO chief told me.
Champ got the Vlad e-mail and wave-off.
How hard can this be? You meet with the guy for 15 minutes, say a nice sentence or two to the pool reporter, and get on with your golf game. ValJar has to know the message this is sending to Europe, and that may be precisely the point: the Euros better cooperate with Champ on everything, including Iran, or he's going to abandon them.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  Always remember it has been democrat presidents who have gotten us into our nastiest wars. WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam...Champ has two more years and a legacy to think of.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2015-03-25 16:32  

#7  You know, O, that if things get out of hand, the only golf you will be doing will be a few short putting holes in a bunker. A real bunker. So there is some incentive to solve the problems, see?
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2015-03-25 16:06  

#6  I think that is what he has in mind.

Don't you mean "that's what ValJar has in mind"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-03-25 13:55  

#5  His petty behavior will blunder us into a war.

I think that is what he has in mind.
Posted by: Woozle Scourge of the Wee Folk4194   2015-03-25 12:38  

#4  His petty behavior will blunder us into a war.
Posted by: DarthVader   2015-03-25 12:23  

#3  The vindictiveness and stupidity of this administration in foreign policy alone, is astounding.
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-03-25 11:39  

#2  He's already abandoned them. He just doesn't care to bother to cover it up anymore.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2015-03-25 11:14  

#1  These days, being snubbed by POTUS speaks well of the snubbee.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-03-25 10:48  

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