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Obama Connects With Young Europeans
Helene Cooper, 2009-04-04 (Saturday), NY Times
STRASBOURG, France — President Obama, appearing on the eve of a NATO summit meeting here, told a cheering crowd of young people on Friday that “America is changing, but it cannot be America alone that changes.”

The gathering resembled any of the countless, similar rallies held during his presidential campaign. But this one took place in the Alsatian border region of France and Germany, not in a gymnasium in Des Moines, and Mr. Obama seemed bent on repairing soured trans-Atlantic relations that began with the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

The event was labeled a town hall meeting, but Mr. Obama spoke at such length that there was time for only five questions from the 3,500 French and German students.

He offered his thoughts on a wide catalog of global issues, drawing cheers when he spoke of shutting down the military prison at Guantánamo Bay and reducing nuclear stockpiles. Along the way, he was surprised to learn from one participant that his first name meant peach in Hungarian.

But he spoke mostly in a serious vein, characterizing the fight against Islamic extremists as one that Europe could not afford to leave to the United States alone.

“I think that it is important for Europe to understand that even though I’m now president and George Bush is no longer president, Al Qaeda is still a threat,” Mr. Obama said. “We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be O.K. It is going to be a very difficult challenge. Al Qaeda is still bent on carrying out terrorist activity.”

Earlier in the day, the president and Michelle Obama were warmly welcomed by the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and his wife, Carla. In a symbolic gesture, Mr. Sarkozy said that France would accept a single prisoner from the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba to assist the United States with shutting it down.

“We can’t condemn the United States because they have that camp and then wash our hands of it once they close it,” Mr. Sarkozy said. “That’s not what being allies is about.”

Mr. Obama lavished praise on Mr. Sarkozy, thanking him for “being good to his word,” while adding that the United States needed help in finding a place to send the 240 or more detainees still held at Guantánamo. European nations have said that they will take some prisoners, but that they need to know the full details of each case, including the security risks, and that the United States will also have to take some detainees.

Mr. Sarkozy announced that Mr. Obama would return to Europe in June to walk the beaches of Normandy on the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings by American and other Allied forces. He said that France would never forget what the United States had done for it.

The NATO summit meeting on Saturday is likely to focus on the alliance’s dismal track record in Afghanistan, and Mr. Obama sought to play down reports of American displeasure with France’s commitment to the international campaign against the Taliban.

Mr. Sarkozy confirmed that France would send no more combat troops to Afghanistan, but said it would assist further with money, officers and police trainers, as efforts intensify to build up the Afghan Army and the police.

Mr. Obama praised France’s military efforts, saying, “I’ve not had to drag France kicking and screaming into Afghanistan.”

British officials said that they would offer about 800 more troops to help stabilize Afghanistan for the August elections, but that the deployment would not be permanent. That offer is likely to be matched by some other NATO countries, but the temporary deployments do not come close to matching the American commitment of 30,000 additional troops.

This NATO summit meeting marks the full re-entry of France into the alliance, and its two new members, Croatia and Albania, bring the total to 28 members. Germany and France are acting as hosts of the event, which got under way on Friday night in Baden-Baden, Germany, with a dinner for the leaders.

NATO officials said that Mr. Sarkozy had tried to keep the NATO secretary general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, from attending the dinner, but was overruled.

Discussions continued about a successor to Mr. de Hoop Scheffer, whose term runs out this summer. Turkey opposes the appointment of the Danish prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, because of his handling of the controversy over the publication in Denmark of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Turkey argues, according to a senior NATO official, that appointing Mr. Rasmussen would enrage Muslims, including those in Afghanistan, who would take out their anger on Turkey, NATO’s only Muslim country.

But Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, who also met with Mr. Obama on Friday, said she thought Mr. Rasmussen would make an excellent choice.

Other names discussed, the official said, include Des Browne, a former British defense minister, and the Norwegian foreign minister, Jonas Gahr Store.

For the most part, the protesters who came out in force Thursday were nowhere to be seen. The police said they detained about 300 people on Thursday evening in Strasbourg, and that they still held about 100. The protesters destroyed telephone booths and bus stops, and tried to build barricades before they were stopped.

During the town hall meeting, Mr. Obama was noticeably more subdued than he was during his news conference in London the night before, when he bantered at length with members of the international news media.

In Strasbourg, he urged a shift in attitudes. In America, he said, there had been “a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world,” and there had been “times when America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.”

But in Europe, he added, there had also been anti-American attitudes. “On both sides of the Atlantic, these attitudes have become all too common,” he said. “They are not wise.”

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Steven Erlanger contributed reporting from Strasbourg, and Alan Cowell from Paris.

Copyright 2009 The New York Times Company

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2007-08-23Can't Stay the Course, Can't End the War, But We'll Call it Bipartisan
2007-09-02Remarks By The President At 2002 Graduation Exercise Of The United States Military Academy
2007-07-31The American Empire is Failing – A Good Thing for America and the World -- An Interview with Terry Paupp
2007-07-22Fisk Interview with President Khatami
2007-07-27Back to the Future? -- The Mideast landscape
2007-07-17Why Bush Will Be A Winner
2007-07-15Viewpoint: Russia's missile fears
2007-07-01Why the Future May Not Belong to Islam
2007-07-02Zionist Plan for the Middle East
2007-07-06World Domination: the Game
2007-07-07Why They Really 'Hate Us'
2007-07-10Tariq Ramadan Has an Identity Issue
2007-06-26Sarkozy blocks key part of EU entry talks on Turkey
2007-06-26Empire strikes back
2007-06-24Antimissile defence's real purpose: political integration more than military protection
2007-05-05WHY IRAN WILL HAVE THE BOMB
2007-05-16Dismantling Yugoslavia
2007-05-27Infiltrating Bilderberg 2005
2007-05-23Palestine: Forty Years of Occupation
2007-05-21U.S. blames Taliban for Afghan civilian casualties
2007-06-13Resource Wars - Can We Survive Them?
2007-06-16The Osama Files
2007-06-08Interview with Condoleezza Rice conducted by Wolf Blitzer, CNN Late Edition, 8 September 2002
2007-06-08Islam and Liberal Democracy: A Historical Overview
2007-06-11Bush says Kosovo to be independent, delights Albania
2007-06-01Islam in the West
2007-06-01The Importance of Being Lucid
2006-12-31"They Take The Mind, and What Emerges is Just Tapioca Pudding"
2006-12-09Backgrounder: The Implications of 'Civil War' in Iraq
2006-12-10The ever lengthening road
2007-01-10Airstrike Rekindles Somalis’ Anger at the U.S.
2007-01-25MIDDLE EAST - Timeline of recent developments
2007-01-25Make War Your Friend, Part I
2007-01-30The Proliferation Security Initiative: Coming in from the Cold
2007-02-20Russia's hudna with the Muslim world
2007-02-10Al-Qaeda Suspects Color White House Debate Over Iran
2007-02-13Israel: The Alternative
2007-02-26Which Will It Be America, Empire or Democracy?
2007-02-26Guantanamo Bay Timeline
2007-03-14The Geopolitics of Energy: Speech given at the IP Week, 2007
2007-03-09Gitmo's Guerrilla Lawyers
2007-03-05HOW BRITAIN'S ARMAMENTS FUEL WAR AND POVERTY
2007-03-03Scapegoating Pakistan