Angela Merkel, Germany’s long-serving chancellor, speaks carefully with Teutonic precision. In her conversations with President Obama on his visit to Britain and Europe she spoke with a certain plaintive tone, seeking reassurance that America hasn’t really withdrawn from the leadership on which Europe has relied for 75 years. She repeated, over and over, the importance of U.S. participation in fashioning the strategies of the Alliance. She seemed to end each such assertion with an unspoken, “that’s right, isn’t it?”
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