Europe rejoices. The wish of its political elites and most Europeans has been granted. Barack Hussein Obama is the president-elect, and on January 20 will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States of America. No more George W. Bush, with his crazy notion that the spread of democracy enhances America’s security. No John McCain, who would have antagonized the Russians by suggesting that NATO extend its protection to nations in Russia’s “near abroad”, or set preconditions for a meeting with Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Perhaps best of all, no Sarah Palin, claiming that belief in God should not disqualify a person from serving as vice president and, potentially as President of the United States.

Already the wheels are in motion to turn Obama’s well-earned victory to Europe’s advantage. Its diplomats are meeting with the Obama foreign policy team–well, with some of his 300 advisers–to persuade its key players to support two important initiatives. The first is near and dear to hearts of that new dynamic duo, the diplomatic version of Batman and Robin. French (and until year-end) EU president Nicolas Sarkozy, and British prime minister Gordon Brown want Obama to sign on to their plan for a new world economic order, a new international financial architecture.

The new president of the United States has promised to “change the world”. Too late. Gordon Brown is already on the job, conjuring up new international institutions to regulate financial markets, urging oil producers and China to pour their billions into the International Monetary

Fund to support the economies of poorer nations threatened with economic meltdown, supporting Sarkozy’s plans to increase the EU’s economic and military reach as an offset to American power.

SOURCE: Weekly Standard

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