Obama To New U.N. Secretary General: "Drop Dead"

The snub could be the latest example of the White House’s strained ties with European allies over the proposed EU army, which could effectively weaken the continent’s reliance on the United States.   – News Link

Obama refuses to meet with the new U.N. Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg.   Naturally the U.S. mainstream media is covering up this story.  But apparently it’s part of a long tradition which has been adhered to by U.S. Presidents as a way to demonstrate commitment to its U.N. treaty obligations.

As Sputnik (link at the top) reports:  “The Bush administration held a firm line that if the NATO secretary general came to town, he would be seen by the president…so as not to diminish his stature or authority,” Kurt Volker, former US representative to NATO, told Bloomberg.

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