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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2009-10-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparation of the TEC meeting and the EU/USA Summit (2 and 3 November 2009) - Transatlantic judicial and police cooperation (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20091021.10.3-243"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-10-21-Speech-3-2442
lpv:speaker	lp:Véronique De Keyser2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; S&D (2009-07-14--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AFET (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; DEVE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Parti Socialiste (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; DROI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the election of President Obama has rightly been welcomed as a victory for US democracy. However, the recent Nobel Peace Prize that has just been awarded to him places him under pressure. Peace in the Middle East? It is something we hope for, but he is certainly not the master card. Peace in Afghanistan? There, US strategy has freedom of manoeuvre, but if President Obama listens to his hawks, he risks another Vietnam. It is a telling sign that the book by Gordon Goldstein describing the dramatic spiral towards failure in the war in Vietnam has been flying off the shelves in Washington, and there are no copies left in the shops. The President must now choose between two strategies: one focuses on stabilisation, the eradication of poverty and the economic development of Afghanistan, by providing a military as well as a civilian presence throughout the country. The second aims to concentrate on a few urban areas and from there to launch large-scale operations against Al-Qaida. Both options require the despatch of troops, but the first is oriented towards the people, and the second towards the war with, in the background, the risk of a catastrophe. Should Europe not save Barack Obama from the old demons haunting the United States, and help him to choose the first of these strategies, focused on the people? That, at least, is the view of my group."@en1
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