Tom Baldwin in Washington
In less than a fortnight President Obama will embark on an eight-day, four-nation tour of Europe and Turkey where his reception from the public is likely to be in marked contrast to the ritual protests that usually greeted George Bush's ventures across the Atlantic.
This should not, however, serve to obscure the reality that many of Mr Obama's proposals to steer a new course are running into the hard rock of self-interested resistance from some of the same countries that did so much to damage the agenda of his predecessor. |