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OBAMA SNUB OF SEC-GEN OF NATO DURING VISIT IN WASHINGTON DIMINISHES STATURE AND AUTHORITY OF THE MILITARY ALLIANCE …….

This is an outrage.

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I have my personal opinions of the former Norwegian PM Stoltenberg, concerning his alliance with the IslamoNazis of Fatah/Hamas, and his anti-Israel sentiments, he should have never been granted the job. That said, no sitting Sec-Gen of NATO, regardless of who he/she is, should ever be sidelined by a US president. This is yet one more example of Obama showing disdain for his office and for America’s traditional allies.

Obama Snubs Nato Chief as Crisis Rages

President Barack Obama has yet to meet with the new head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and won’t see Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg this week, even though he is in Washington for three days.  Stoltenberg’s office requested a meeting with Obama well in advance of the visit, but never heard anything from the White House, two sources close to the NATO chief told me.

The leaders of almost all the other 28 NATO member countries have made time for Stoltenberg since he took over the world’s largest military alliance in October. Stoltenberg, twice the prime minister of Norway, met Monday with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Ottawa to discuss the threat of the Islamic State and the crisis in Ukraine, two issues near the top of Obama’s agenda.

Kurt Volker, who served as the U.S. permanent representative to NATO under both President George W. Bush and Obama, said the president broke a long tradition.  “The Bush administration held a firm line that if the NATO secretary general came to town, he would be seen by the president … so as not to diminish his stature or authority,” he told me.

America’s commitment to defend its NATO allies is its biggest treaty obligation, said Volker, adding that European security is at its most perilous moment since the Cold War. Russia has moved troops and weapons into eastern Ukraine, annexed Crimea, placed nuclear-capable missiles in striking distance of NATO allies, flown strategic-bomber mock runs in the North Atlantic, practiced attack approaches on the UK and Sweden, and this week threatened to aim nuclear missiles at Denmark’s warships.

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