Europe's time to shine

The recent French intervention in Mali has brought up the topic of US-European relations again.  When will the US team with Europe to intervene and when will Europe be left to itself?  Here is an interesting article addressing these questions.  Obama's foreign policy strategy can be summed up like this: if others can do the job then we won't.  It will be interesting to see how Europe adapts to the new US strategy. The Economist has another interesting article about France's president and the Mali intervention, things could be looking up for President Hollande Read and judge for yourselves.