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Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Nato's Anders Fogh Rasmussen sees power slipping away


Anders Fogh Rasmussen: "To go to the bottom line, I don't think President Karzai will sign"

There is an unmistakeable sense among Western decision-makers of power slipping away.

It's not an argument about American abstention or decline, although that plays into it for some critics of the Obama administration.

It is more to do with the exhaustion - moral, political and economic - of nations that have been in the forefront of the international security business, and the vibrant ascendancy of some other players.

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