{"id":4939,"date":"2010-03-30T12:34:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T17:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4939"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:56:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:56:16","slug":"obama-asks-sarkozy-for-afghan-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/03\/30\/obama-asks-sarkozy-for-afghan-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama asks Sarkozy for Afghan help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4940\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/03\/Sarkozy-Obama-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sarkozy &amp; Obama\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>On his visit to the U.S., French President Sarkozy has made it clear that France is &#8220;an invaluable partner and ally of the United States.&#8221;\u00a0 Does that mean he&#8217;ll\u00a0send more French combat troops to Afghanistan, as President Obama is <a title=\"requesting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hk-avy_ua9wpGUC1X6jL0e0tGdhQD9EOQ6DG0\" target=\"_blank\">requesting<\/a>\u00a0at their White House meeting?\u00a0 International Relations Professor <a title=\"William Keylor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/keylor\/\" target=\"_blank\">William Keylor <\/a>says opinion polls in France, England, Germany and other allied countries show dwindling support for the NATO mission in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The mood seems to be, after all of these years, what is the mission, and how do we know when it has been accomplished?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact William Keylor, 617-358-0197, <a href=\"mailto:wrkeylor@bu.edu\">wrkeylor@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his visit to the U.S., French President Sarkozy has made it clear that France is &#8220;an invaluable partner and ally of the United States.&#8221;\u00a0 Does that mean he&#8217;ll\u00a0send more French combat troops to Afghanistan, as President Obama is requesting\u00a0at their White House meeting?\u00a0 International Relations Professor William Keylor says opinion polls in France, England, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2570,2568,2569],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4939"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7821,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions\/7821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}