Why can't Germany and the United States see eye to eye?
When the newly re-elected Barack Obama spoke at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate last June, he invoked the call of history: with the ghosts of John F Kennedy and Ronald Reagan hovering in the background, the newly-elected president urged his German audience to see itself as "part of something bigger".
"We are also citizens of the world. And our fates and fortunes are linked like never before," he said. "I say all this here, in the heart of Europe, because our shared past shows that none of these challenges can be met unless we see ourselves as part of something bigger than our own experience."… Seguir leyendo »