Obama calls for closer Russia-NATO ties
Published: 03 April, 2009, 20:21
NATO sees Russia as an important partner and the ties between them should be developed in many areas, Barack Obama said, speaking on the eve of NATO’s 60th anniversary summit in Strasbourg.
“It is useless to talk about limits on the strategic arms at the same time as another country is building up an anti-nuclear missile defense system, because these issues are very much connected. That was the understanding of the old agreements between the US and the USSR back at the end of the 20th century. There was an understanding that it is impossible to stop the arms race if you create some kind of defense system at the same time.” " ... Soon, the fox said, You're too heavy for my back, jump onto my nose." So the gingerbread man jumped on the fox's nose. But as soon as they reached the riverbank, the fox flipped the gingerbread man into the air, snapped his mouth shut, and ate the gingerbread man." So many stories about how the tale is told and the outcome is the same whether it is the frog and scorpion or fox and gingerbread man.
There is a story about a scorpion and a frog: the scorpion wants across the stream and asks the frog who is in the water to give him a ride, please, to the other side of the stream and it (scorpion) PROMISES to NOT sting the frog. The frog agrees and so the scorpion jumps on the back of the frog and frog begins the swim across the stream. Before frog reaches the other side of the stream, however, scorpion stings frog directly in the back. Frog is shocked! Why scorpion, frog says, you said you would not sting me and now here you have and we have not reached shore! Scorpion said to frog -- what did frog expect, after all, scorpion is still a scorpion after all. Both frog and scorpion were drown in the stream. The moral of the story? Who is the frog and who is the scorpion in the story of NATO? After all, NATO is still NATO, after all.