if they joined with the allies, nixon would have been toast. but there isn't any question -- now, you got to remember in those days nasr and arab nationalists were considered pretty progressive. they were getting rid of royal thrones and the colonial power but what happens is nasr stays in power who's followed by sadat, who's followed by you know who? mubarak, right. mubarak was a 28-year-old officer on the rise already he at the time of the crisis. eisenhower's policy we have to say -- i sound very proeisenhower. there's always a law of unintended consequences. and eisenhower's policies opened the door for military strong men to operate in the middle east. and at the same time it would not be fair -- to hang that around eisenhower's neck all together, 50, 60 years later, of course, and nevertheless that was -- that was a factor. and personally, i have an op-ed i'm trying to get somebody to print at the moment. my prediction is that the military is not done in egypt. they've been in charge for 60 years. and i will be real surprised if we don't

the allies were facing a cold winter.e would give them nothing until the publicly committed themselves to withdraw. it got so intense that in paris cabdriver's refuse to pick up americans. gas stations declined to sell fuel. it took a month to get the commitment and another month for withdrawal. israeli withdrawal took even longer. a huge story that i don't have time to get into. they evacuated the sinai, but refused to leave the gaza strip. they continued to occupy those two spots. finally after presidential pressure on march 1st 1957 the israeli government announced its intention to withdraw. a big story about this because politically this was a hot potato. then there is the eisenhower doctrine. in a four hour meeting with congressional leaders who else but dwight eisenhower can hold a 40 hour meeting on new year's day. eisenhower presented resolutions to those leaders endorsing military and economic aid to the middle east and if necessary military intervention by the united states. the house passed a resolution on janu

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and the united states and allied powers abandon the mainland until 1944. this is a totally different situation. they said written in france are not to help. he thought he was just not viable. he was criticized much more so. might look doesn't do justice to that particular subject i regret to say. >> would you address the eisenhower and vietnam? >> yeah, i sound like a broken record because i tell you i know a lot about a little. i do know about that. he clearly made the decision not to intervene in china in 1954, particularly for the siege the enemy approved any other number of advisers who wanted to do it. any thought about it and is surrounded by a number of people who thought he should do it and went over overnighting came back the next and said i'm not going to send one soldier and he did not. having said that, eisenhower left a bit of a mess in vietnam. geneva conventions of 1954, i have no doubt about the scsi should each to teach a course. the geneva convention called for unified elections in vietnam. those elections never to place because the unite

even our closest allies are confused.ch legal authority already exists, we should enact and enforce a new pending legislation the strength in some sanctions, particularly against the revolutionary guards that control much of the economy. in the middle of all of this is israel. israel is unique in the region because of what it stands for. and what it has accomplished. and is unique in the threat of annihilation. it has long been a bastion of democracy in our region of tyranny and violence. it is by far the closest ally in that part of the world. despite nemours, a tax of various forms, israel offers all of its citizens, including 1.5 million arabs of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and the right to vote as well as access to independent courts. and all other democratic rights. nowhere has president obama's lack of judgment and then more stunning than in his dealings with israel. it breaks my heart that the president of this country treats israel, our great friend has a problem, rather than as an ally. the president

and allies in afghanistan. many prominent people like ahmad wali karzai have been killed in kandahar and the north. protecting those people has been extremely difficult. i think that is the concern. absent the feeling of stability, not just for power brokers and warlords, but for ordinary citizens. >> is the political threat crowing? >> when the senior officials add up the numbers, it is about the same as last year, but there are some very -- the most powerful, the police chief, warlord, if you will, in the north, was recently assassinated. that sent shivers in the north, where i also visited. there is a greater stability, but there is a sense that the people who are in charge are targets. >> david ignatius, thank you for joining us. now to the hacking scandal which continues to spread in great britain. "news of the worldwent even further = = -- "news of the world" went even further, according to gordon brown. >> there is some flash photography. >> here is gordon at downing street. on the top is rebekah brooks.

you know replenish the empty arsenals of some of the nato allies which is usually a normal thing to do but in this case it has a certain smear on it and very definitely germany is under a lot of pressure the media accused mr vest and the government not to be able to conduct a coherent strategy where of course it's very clear that we do not take part in warfare with soldiers but replenish of allies is normal thing to do but what we see here is that the media in germany under our fears u.s. influence is also accusing germany of being in bad company by voting together with russia which is not reflecting the good position of our bilateral connections and contacts or looking forward mr hostility think that germany is likely now to get further involved in the conflicts. it is possible in case the other allies expressed the need for it but this is not very likely to happen right now and of course there is the cost question because eight countries are now bearing the financial brunt of the action and therefore it is also not to be excluded that germany will by itself after being asked to do so

in this case to an ally... their ally like the iranians who are helping them quite directly in terms of putting down their people. he's made terrible decisions. and we oppose, obviously, as a matter of policy and principle and strong view and we've articulated this and have pressed on this his use of violence and repression on his people. what's happened as a result is that it's spreading. if you and i sat here and put a map of syria on the table over the last 20 something weeks, all right, and we had a dot or a star where there had been a protest, we would see it spreading around theountry. and that's going to be the natural result of this. our position is this: the violence and repression should stop. litical prisoners shod be released and there should be a real movement to transition. he's lost legitimacy. he's lost legitimacy because he has attacked his own people. because he has not engaged in a legitimate transition here. and thiss not heading to a good place. >> rose: and what are we r we preprepared to

allie, what can you tell us? >>> >> reporter: right now we are on tunnel road in the oakland berkeley hills. you can see from the bike path this is a very popular route for cyclists. the 29-year-old frequently road his bike through this area but on saturday somebody found his cell phone on the ground right here on tunnel road. that caused his family to become concerned especially after he did not return back to his berkeley apartment on saturday night. now this is a picture of the 29- year-old cyclist. he said he has not been seen since saturday afternoon. he is 6 feet tall, brown hair and brown eyes working on his phd in physics at uc berkeley. his girlfriend says martin used to be a professional cyclist and feels very comfortable on the bike. he knows how to navigate hills but worries he may have been malnourished because he had recently been researching how to do juice diets and how to fast. >> if he was going down a windy road, things he usually does and he physically and mentally couldn't take it, he could h

it's clearly started to lead in on its allies in lebanon not to escalate the situation against syria because so did a b a is one of the countries that certainly doesn't want the arabs the arab spring to spreads that's a very good point. how in my can if i can ask you i mean it's quite interesting here and we're in this program we've seen that how lebanon remains just a pawn of so many other countries and we could name them on quite a few of them it would have been mentioned here i mean is lebanon strong enough politically its political establishment to to make sure it doesn't become victim of outside forces to stir up these troubles that we've seen over the last few decades i think many years ago before you know during the civil war and before the civil war that was the case and many factions in lebanon have various if you want support from from from from other countries or allies in other countries however i think lebanon also has come a long way from from those days of you know when they went on the street and took and took to the gun it's a different generation and love and you ju

suspicion of involvement of these us nation has also fallen on shiite syria one of hezbollah's key allies and patron the syria to deny this connection with the killing the accusation led to mass protests that ended syria's decades long military presence in the country syria like libya is part of an alliance and that the violence is very wide it begins in iran. iraq's government are part of a syrian regime has won all eleven on how mosques in gaza. some experts warn that if syria becomes too embroiled in the investigation and now break of sectarian violence in lebanon will be almost unavoidable and especially alarming prospect given the spike in the sunni share a clash of the arab spring presently lebanese authorities have less than a month to execute their arrest warrants and has a leader hassan nasrallah has sworn retribution for anyone who tries to do this russia china a across our team. ok to go to you first since you're in beirut this is been going on a long time and there's a number of people that are accused of this crime it happened in two thousand and five first it was being brain

because a lot of uncomfortable truths may come out one of them is that there albanian allies are actually making unilateral moves so this was the reason why the best that serbia could do along with russia and china is to get session behind closed doors and really it's because of the western powers and what might happen if they say the situation continues to escalate do you think. it's really hard to say but we must remember that the key to the situation in kosovo was really in nato hands they control militarily the entire province so really whatever happens down there is under their control and it's something that they will tolerate or not tolerate and we must also remember what happened yesterday with the burning of the . checkpoints the border checkpoint we still don't know who actually did it these were masked men they really could have been any nationality we don't know whether they were serb albanian or french or even american we just still don't know that. from their pov it's a political analyst from belgrade many things are speaking to us on this thank you . the u.s. military says

many factions in lebanon have various if you want support from from from from other countries or allies in other countries however i think lebanon also has come a long way from from those days of you know when they went on the street and took and took to the gun it's a different generation and love and you just have to go around them realize that this kind of generation and the movement is not interested. and taking up arms and fighting each other yes every now and then they go on the street and then shot them scream and demonstrate and then my books if you know kick kick kick kick each other a little bit but that's about as far as it goes there's no intention by anybody to let you know to allow lebanon you're into a war but more important more importantly he's just one more thought as you know everyone is going and again you know these these are not things one you know not not everyone says that hezbollah for example does not want for this for this you know prosecution took to go ahead now there's a slide the first year of confusion right from the beginning hezbollah was part and parce

because the with his western allies seem short their little opponents fighting back well it's not just an embarrassment for sarkozy it's an embarrassment for all nato for the whole west paris even admits being libya's rebels but on some somalia. when should they be up for training within the last two or three years that's documented we have to fly records and everything else so it seems strange in many ways the whole western support of some of the rebel groups in libya must be questioned because in some cases i think we are effectively arming al-qaeda. it's all making a mockery of the un vote on foreign intervention in the country. by leading it. giving. none of. this. witnesses at the to go of libya is causing widespread atrocities for every one military personnel that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians for all categorically ruled out saying what the real troops protect predict is the only way to break the libyan deadlock the moves the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of keeping italy admits invading libya was a mistake russia abstained did the us vo

allie rasmus joins us now from the crash site. >> reporter: i want to share with you that we have just learned the names of the victims of that crash. a family member sent us a photo of them. they are david and dede haughton of santa cruz. they were killed in this crash. so were their sons, ryan and luke. they were on board of this plane that we're going to show you right here. this is where federal investigators are right now. they plan to be here for most of the afternoon to try to figure out how this crash happened. >> we're going to gather the factual information, clean up the site. >> nasaworkers from national transportation safety board are at the site. witnesses saw the plane nose dave towards the ground, shortly after it took off. it skidded across the pavement before it slammed into the side of a medical building. >> i turned and all i saw was the airplane hit. and the explosion was taller than the an again ya. >> santa cruz chef river deputies said two people onboard died. but overnight, more victims were discovered. there were four persons on board. that's all i can tell you

and our allies must support this process. we must allow the two parties to come together and negotiate a settlement. this is the best avenue to achieve lasting peace. i strongly oppose palestinian attempts for unilateral recognition through the u.n. that would delegitimate mies this peace process. harry tru truman recognized israel within minutes of its declaration of independence and we must continue this kind of support for israel and our allies striving for peace. i look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the i'll -- aisle in the months ahead. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlelady from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: we reserveal the other side yields back and then we'll close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. the gentleman from california. mr. berman: i'm very pleased to yield to the gentleman from virginia, mr. moran 2 1/2 minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia 2 1/2 minutes. mr. moran: i thank

that the fingers were pointed so late because there was plenty of motive for syria and for their allies in lebanon to commit to murder another reason is that it bore the hallmarks of the kinds of hits that we know syrian security officials have committed against lebanon lebanese officials they attempted to resist syrian rule of lebanon so just because pingers were pointed early doesn't mean that they were wrong and it doesn't mean that there weren't good reasons for it now as to the substance of the investigation i think it's way too early to be talking about evidence that was tampered with evidence that was removed from the scene all of that is until it's presented at trial rumor margaret and the international community has called upon lebanon and the new lebanese government under prime minister mikati to launch an investigation and then to serve the arrest warrants the questions of evidence are questions for trial not questions for rumor mongering and i'm confident that an international tribunal an international investigation from the netherlands which worked as long as it did has all

even our closest allies are confused.hority already exists, we should enact and enforce a new pending legislation the strength in some sanctions, particularly against the revolutionary guards that control much of the economy. in the middle of all of this is israel. israel is unique in the region because of what it stands for. and what it has accomplished. and is unique in the threat of annihilation. it has long been a bastion of democracy in our region of tyranny and violence. it is by far the closest ally in that part of the world. despite nemours, a tax of various forms, israel offers all of its citizens, including 1.5 million arabs of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and the right to vote as well as access to independent courts. and all other democratic rights. nowhere has president obama's lack of judgment and then more stunning than in his dealings with israel. it breaks my heart that the president of this country treats israel, our great friend has a problem, rather than as an ally. the president seems to gen

live in san francisco, allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you, allie. >>> new at noon, david wu announced in the last few hours, he's resigning from congress, following a sex scandal. an 18-year-old woman accuses the 56-year-old democratting of a recently unwanted sexual encountert. recently, wu told aides it was consensual. nancy pelosi called for an investigation. he says the well-being of his children comes first and he will step down as soon as the debt ceiling debate is resolved. >>> today, accused serial diller joseph nasso will find out if he will get legal heap -- help. he had planned to represent himself on murder charges. ese accused of killing four northern california women between 1997 and 1994. now he's asking for advisory counsel to be paid for by the public. we have calls into the court. we'll have more on this at 5:00. >>> the mother of one of the defendants in the bryan stow beating case says her son is innocent. 30-year-old marvin no rwood and 29-year-old louie sanchez are behind bars on $500,000 bail. they are accused of stocking -- new yorking stow to the

france and russia were allied. germany and austria hungary were allied. enormous armies of reservists. people who were trained but had to be mobilized. and it took several weeks to fully mobilize your army, get all the reservist off their farms and out of their factories and into uniforms and you know, reunited with their rifles and off to the front. if you could start mobilizing your army before the other guy, you had an advantage. similarly, if you could attack first, that meant the war would be on the other nation's territory and that's what germany and austria-hungary did. and, these were things that sort of accelerated that spread. but if we were able to rewrite history at will, so that things could unfold in a way that i said a moment ago, that, i, you know, i think the war was not inevitable i would have, you know, changed the actions of kaiser wilhelm and emperor france jeff seven of austri austria-hungary. i think then the war might not have happened. not that there wouldn't have been other wars, you know, in europe later on but i don't like thin

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allie rasmus is live near the scene.are currently searching for one driver involved. what have you learned about that person? >> reporter: at that point, we don't know much about him. all chp could tell us, is that the car was driving, involved in this accident is registered to an address in daly city. we don't know if that's the person who was behind the wheel when this happened. we can show you where it happened, right here behind us on eastbound 80. just before the carlson boulevard onramp. it happened just before 5:00 this morning. one person died. that person was driving a pontiac sedan, according to firefighters burst into flames shortly after impact. two other people were hospitalized with serious injuries. richmond firefighters were called to the scene. they said some of the people who witnessed the crash tried to help by pulling the injured out of their cars. a fourth person fled the scene. witnesses said he jumped over the median, and ran across westbound 80 to get away. >> we have the passenger from his vehicl

ktvu's allie rasmus joining us now with the questions surrounding the soda the girls were drinking. allie. >> reporter: well, right now we are at the sonoma county sheriff's department headquarters in santa rosa. the sheriff's office is the agency investigating the death of this 14-year-old girl. and right now the information we're getting from the sheriff's office is that this happened some time saturday night into early sunday morning. four teenage girls got together for a weekend sleepover at a home in santa rosa on foothill ranch road. at some point during the night all four teens became violently ill after passing around a soda with an unknown substance in it. the parents at first thought it was just food poisoning. the parents hosting this sleepover. but on sunday morning when they tried to wake one of the four teenagers she did not respond. paramedics were called to the home and paramedics pronounced that the girl had died. sonoma county sheriff's violent crimes investigative detectives are the ones looking into this death. the cause of the 14-year-old's death is unknown at t

but if anything should threaten our relationship with one of our strongest allies, it could threaten our national security as well. coming up in an exclusive interview i talk to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu about the importance of our bond. [applause].

do i need to remind him that the soviet union was there part where can world war ii, allied?the end of world war ii, the big government people at turned over all of eastern europe in east germany to the soviet partner, the soviet allied? that they then turned into an enemy soon. i would justify ever-increasing military expenditures throughout the cold war, not to mention not worse in korea that cost 50,000 american men the time and on and on. by their fruits you will know them. that says we're only going to have regime change when they attack us, when they are threat to us. has he not heard of iran in 1853 when the cia effected a regime change there because the british were mad because most the prime minister who was democratically elected and nationalize british real interest? has he not heard of guatemala in 1954 with the cia announced the president of that country? this is why we have the blowback from iran today. this is why there are more than a million people caught in guatemala silverware. and then he talks about is only 4% of gdp and we don't need to worry about milit

ktvu's allie rasmus, joining us live. okay, allie. what do you know so far?the 3600 post offices -- [ bad aud yesterday ] >> -- [ bad audio ] >> we will get back to allie. we're having an audio problem. >>> oakland international airport has stopped construction. because of the ongoing debt ceiling debate, congress missed -- missed a deadline to administer the money to the faa projects. other reports in different cities were put on hold. oakland had planned to finish that to your in 2013 -- tower in 2013. >>> firefighters are trying to figure out what caused an early- morning fire in san francisco. it started about 1:15 on montgomery street near green street. the flames started on the roof and then quickly spread to the penthouse according to firefighters. people were evacuated from their homes. everyone has since been let back in. firefighters say some of the apartments had minor water damage and no injuries were reported. >>> :30. well -- 8:30. in north beach, a woman is recovering after being shot as she walked home. this happened at 10:00 on franciscan bet

for all the things it does for us, not just for our allies. secondly, i am a strong advocate of maintaining a strong relationship with our current allies, they've been tried and true. i know that we sometimes look and compare an individual nato country to us, the reality is in the aggregate they commit about $300 billion a year too defense in the aggregate. and they are serving very bravely and courageously with us in and stan. notably today i was at a ceremony at the french embassy last night where the french presented five -- their equivalent of silver stars to our soldiers who served alongside with them. the french were very proud to note that they have a french battalion under our command without caveat in afghanistan. i think we should not in the midst of our current budget challenges undervalue our relationships overseas. now that said, the comment about whether it's two or three brigades in europe was made when we were shooting for $178 billion in reductions not $400. ill restate my earlier plaej in discussion with senator reed. everyth

fly 319 sororities that day -- sorties that day, the allies flew 6,488. however well you were armed or might do, if you have, if you have your tanks being taken out from the air, then it, it's pretty much an open and shut case. so gentleman in the front. >> michael goodwin. you draw a distinction in the early years between what you call ideological or that fanatim and lunacy toward the end of his life. i think for most people today we look at hitler's whole life as one of lunacy, as a madman. how are you describing ideology in a way that is not mad from our current understanding? >> um, yes. that's also a good question. um, i don't see him as a madman from the beginning of his, of his career onwards. i see him as a particularly, um, vicious-minded adventurer who would always double the stakes whenever the, whenever the crisis moment came. who would grant every opportunity. he's the ultimate opportunist. and he's a, a politician completely without principle, and he could get quite far in a country which has been ravaged by the great depression and which ha

this is see in political germany has rolled to replenish the empty arsenals of some of their nato allies which is usually a normal thing to do but in this case it has a certain smear on it and very definitely germany is under a lot of pressure the media accused mr vest and the government not to be able to conduct a coherent strategy where of course it is very clear that we do not take part in the warfare with soldiers replenish arsenals of allies that it's a normal thing to do but what we see here is that the media in germany under these u.s. influence is also accusing germany of being in bad company by voting together with russia which is not reflecting the good position of our electoral connections those eight who are doing it may be requesting some support from the others so there will be a long grave but in fact what we see here is that deliberately the country is being destroyed which is by far by far transgressing of the decision by the security council and that's a very good story right now. still ahead as he could be a return to grace and school life like history so many styles o

germany has an else that will provide they say with weapons for the allies his campaign in libya and the us despite its refusal to participate in direct military action unless chris the whole still believes the u.s. has put pressure on ballin. germany to make good on the flaw this is see in political germany has rolled to replenish the empty arsenals of some of the made to allies which is usually a normal thing to do but in this case it has a certain smear on it and very definitely germany is under a lot of pressure the media accused mr and the government not to be able to conduct the cook here in strategy where of course it is very clear that we do not take part in the warfare with soldiers but replenish of allies it's a normal thing to do but what we see here is that the media in germany under our fears u.s. influence is also accusing germany of being in bad company by voting together with russia which is not reflecting the good position of our electoral connections those eight who are doing it may be requesting some support from the others so there will be a long breath but in fac

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and other western allies are reducing their presence in that country. ok. welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle as the u.s. starts its military withdrawal from iraq what does faith hold for the kurds is post invasion iraqi administratively and democratically strong enough to keep the country intact and if the kurds strive towards an independent state what is stopping. you. to cross-talk the fate of the kurds i'm joined by pressure was faisal in washington he's an independent journalist in new york we cross to brendan o'leary he is the louder professor of political science at the university of pennsylvania and his most recent book is how to get out of iraq with the integrity and in london we have sami ramadani he's a senior lecturer in sociology at london metropolitan university all right gentlemen this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it but first let's take a look at a report about the future facing the kurds following the u.s. withdrawal from iraq. eight years after the u.s. led invasion of iraq washing

and if rome had no allies, then allies would be invented. the fight was always invested with an aura of le league alt. rome was always being attacked by evil-minded neighbors always fighting for breathing space. the whole world was pervaded by a host ofen mes and it was manifestly rome's duty to guard against their indubitally aggressive design. now does any of that sound familiar to you at all? so he's writeingin 1919 about rome. that could be about the american empire. we are construction stantdly, and i think that's one of the tricks of ruling groups which is to distract the people from their immediate problems and interests by, alexander hamilton made this point in federalist paper number six. said many a sovereign has -- how did he phrase it -- has conchereconjuredup a crisis abrt the people from their domestic grievances. i think that's what we have going today. this idea -- >> on purpose? >> of perpetual war. yeah, think war has been very good for george bush. it's been really good for him. >> but was it for bill clinton? i mean the i

turns on its policy all of abstaining from the conflict so it can deliver a bailout to its war allies. and. general is adjusted from the war crimes court forcing the judge to enter a not guilty plea on his behalf lighted faces charges including genocide carried out in the balkans war as some are serbs accuse the hague of one sided justice. well my colleague is here in half an hour's time for an hour in cross talk people of bell and his guests discuss what the u.s. withdrawal might mean for the kurdish community in iraq and whether fears of separatism and ethnic clashes might persuade the americans to stay to stay with us . please. you can. still. welcome the crosstown time peter lavelle as the u.s. starts its military withdrawal from iraq what his fate hold for the kurds is post invasion iraqi administratively and democratically strong enough to keep the country intact and if the kurds strive towards an independent state what is stopping. the can. cross talk the fate of the kurds i'm joined by pressure was faisal law in washington he's an independent journalist in new york we cross to

discussions he also repeated that moscow sees the actions of the allied forces there as violation of the u.n. mandate he said that the resolution is being wrongly interpreted as you can do whatever you want but there must be limits to an intervention what moscow sees is the west now clearly taking sides in a civil war and extending the conflict to u.s. missile defense plans in europe are of course up for discussion here in washington foreign minister lavrov said russian for him legally binding guarantees that the european missile defense project will not threaten russia's security there has been words before washington has many times said that the system would not be against russia but moscow needs to have it on paper some analyst explained that this urge that russia has been getting everything on paper with promises in the past that were not fulfilled for example when the soviet union collapsed russia was assured that nato would not be expanding towards these borders but he did it continued recruiting new members of the bottom line is words are good but words in a legally binding ag

been slowed by lack of support from nato meanwhile germany has agreed to supply munitions for the allies is continuing airstrikes in did not reach the operation and some suggest that coalition pressure has caused a shift in position not only couldn't decipher whether germany joining the nato bombing operation will turn out to be a good new. more bombs wanted just over one hundred days of airstrikes and with just over two thousand bombs dropped by nato allies on libya the mission has run into an unexpected problem a lack of shells to drop where there is demand there is supply in this case germany has agreed to provide the much needed ammunition previously berlin has abstained from voting in favor of the un security council resolution on libya a move that surprised some and angered others but it may now be backing out of a decision the germans may not want to participate but are they have decided that position does not preclude them actually sublime weapons in this case or systems some believe germany is under pressure from other nato members particularly the united states friends in the u