Transatlantic TakeWASHINGTON—Barack Obama’s visit to Poland this week for the NATO Summit will likely be his last time in Europe as President. And in many ways, it is a bookend to his trip to the continent exactly eight years ago, in July 2008 as a candidate for president, when he spoke before 200,000 enthralled Germans packed into Berlin’s Tiergarten and delivered a message of hope. Then, Germans (and Europeans generally) were desperate for a new kind of American leadership and believed Obama embodied all their dreams about the United States. Now, Europeans (and Americans) are anxious about their …read more
Obama’s Last Trip to Europe, and the Burdens that Divide
