Daniel R. DePetris
Politics, Americas
Why are Senate Republicans opposing her nomination as NATO number two?
The nomination of Deputy Secretary General to NATO doesn’t usually make waves. The post doesn’t receive the acclaim or attention of the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe or the NATO Secretary-General. Indeed, the deputy resembles a cog in the machinery of the NATO bureaucracy; if the Secretary General is unavailable, the deputy will pick up the slack and do some interviews with the press or issue a couple of statements on behalf of the organization.
That all changed when President Obama announced last March that he picked …read more
Source: The National Interest
