Sunday, March 20, 2011

U.S. action against Libya: As Obama was in seven days to the commander

Barack Obama is adamantly behind the UN resolution against Libya and Gaddafi threatened with air strikes. Ironically, before the anniversary of the Iraq war. It is a defining moment in his presidency - and his first own troop deployment. It is a new sound. Unthinkable when he was still a candidate, the candidate of peace, the wars of his predecessor refused and wanted to have to do with them as little as possible. But now he is president. And suddenly he's commander - his own first war.

U.S.: Ex-Foreign Ministers Warren Christopher died

With 68 years Warren Christopher came to his main office: The lawyer was U.S. secretary of state under Democratic President Bill Clinton and played an important role in peace negotiations in the Middle East and Bosnia. The diplomat died on Friday evening. Former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher has died at the age of 85. From 1993 to 1997 was the diplomat at the office of then U.S. President Bill Clinton. In his tenure, he played an important role in the peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians that led to the Oslo peace agreement.