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Stephen Flanagan, CSIS senior vice president and director of the CSIS International Security Program, was quoted by the Associated Press, "Bush is Straight-Talker, So What's EU-3?"
President Bush is a straight-talking guy, so what's he doing talking about the EU-3?
It's part of Bush diplomatic-speak. Derided by some as a cowboy during his first term, Bush is ending his presidency knee-deep in group diplomacy. [...]
Regardless of their outcome, Bush's willingness to join in these diplomatic huddles has helped restore U.S.-European relations, said Steve Flanagan, director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' international security program in Washington. The first foreign trip Bush took in his second term, for instance, was to Brussels, base of the European Union. That was seen as an admission by the Bush administration that it might not have utilized the Atlantic alliance as effectively as it could have in the first term, Flanagan said. Read the article
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