EU wants new Mideast strategy
Observers say Europe will have to do more to help the United States find and implement a fresh security strategy in the Middle East, and the findings of the Iraq Study Group have already sparked positive feedback from European allies.
Signs for a change were already visible. After the sweeping Democratic victory in the midterm elections, neo-conservative architects of the failed foreign policy, like (former Secretary of Defense) Donald Rumsfeld and John Bolton, the unpopular U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, had to resign. Robert Gates, the new U.S. secretary of defense, answering a senator`s question as to whether America 'was winning in Iraq,' said 'no, Sir'; thus with two words changing the rhetoric that has dominated Bush`s news conferences for the past two years.
Until last month, Gates was a member of the ISG and is expected to be much more open to alternative ideas and new tactics in Iraq and the Middle East than his predecessor was.
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