NATO: Leadership: Denmark's Anders Fogh Rasmussen takes over as Secretary General of NATO, adopts Obama's Afghan agenda

With the North Koreans apparently completing their attempted satellite-emplacement, only to be awarded a lacklustre failure, but still offering to the world a strange cocky visual contrast (TV) to the G20 other industrialized countries. The Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors was in meeting to forfend a worsening of the world economic crisis; NATO's moves in conjunction with Obama's world anti-terrorist policy would just not be put totally into news-eclipse, as perhaps the NorKors had caculated, mistakenly.

Still, it remains to be seen how much re-inforcement a Denmark-led NATO can muster against those Afghanis and Pakistanis who led worldwide extremist Muslim-mass anti-Denmark demonstrations, a result of the Danish government's previous failure to protect Muslims from the Prophet-insulting cartoons two or so years ago, the Danes being led at the time by none other than former Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, now headed to NATO.

Our title-link to this blog-entry will take you to a fine article, "Denmark’s New Premier Faces Sliding Polls, Deepening Recession" by Christian Wienberg (Apr6,2k9; Bloomberg). The report covers the background of the elder Rasmussen, and an assessment of his successor's situation. The former Finance Minister has succeeded the new NATO official. From cabinet status to new Prime Minister, Lars Loekke Rasmussen, has problems enuff (besides carrying the same surname as his NATO-bound predessor).

-- Politicap

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