New York Times
December 4, 2011
As he traded the political upheaval of the Middle East for the economic storms of Europe, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has preached a consistent message on his travels: “The United States isn’t going anywhere,” as he put it on Sunday.
It is a challenging, even far-fetched, argument to make at a time when the United States is pulling its last soldiers out of Iraq — scrambling the calculus of players in the region — and when it is not offering to rescue Greece or other debt-ridden European countries.
Mr. Biden acknowledged the need to reassure allies, noting that in Turkey and Iraq last week, every leader he met voiced uneasiness about what would happen after the American troops departed. On Monday, he was scheduled to meet with the new prime minister of Greece, Lucas Papademos; officials made it clear he was bearing good will, not loan guarantees.
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