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Reginald Dale, a senior fellow with the CSIS Europe Program, was quoted by the Washington Times, “McCain Seeks to Fix Europe Ties."
One of Sen. John McCain's jokes on the presidential campaign trail is that France now has a pro-American president, "which just goes to show you that if you live long enough, you'll see everything."
The 71-year-old Mr. McCain yesterday met in Elysee Palace with President Nicolas Sarkozy, who's perceived as so cozy with the United States that his nickname in France is "Sarko the American." The meeting brought together two savvy politicians who each tout their own ability for "straight talk" and who see the struggle against Islamic extremism as the world's greatest challenge. [...]
Mr. McCain is making inroads on the Continent and eclipsing his Democratic presidential rivals, said Reginald Dale, a senior fellow with the European Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"Given the sort of [pro-European] views that McCain has expressed lately, I think it would be quite easy for him to stake out a [good] reputation among reasonable Europeans, aside from the knee-jerk anti-America crowd," he said. "I think McCain has given much more thought about Europe than Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton." Read the article
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