Once, there were enormous hopes. With Barack Obama’s election, the trans-Atlantic rift that grew in the Bush years would finally be bridged. Now, in the financial crisis, this hope could prove an illusion. Many Germans believe they are being taken hostage by the U.S., and they want to vent their frustrations. They ask whether Mr. Obama’s gigantic stimulus programs are similar to the gigantic war programs of Mr. Bush. The new president seems to be reacting just as drastically to this “world crisis” as the Republicans did to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, demanding the same unconditional allegiance from allies that Mr. Bush did. Are the neo-Keynesians as mistaken today as the neoconservatives were then? Isn’t American gigantism the biggest problem? http://online.wsj.com/article/state_of_the_union.html

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http://www.tagesspiegel.de/meinung/kommentare/Barack-Obama-Angela-Merkel-Finanzkrise;art141,2763746