I’ll be honest I don’t know what to think about this apparent encouragement to Obama to Be peaceful. I thought it was serious manipulation toward that goal yesterday. But than I think isn’t europes fate(energy) so inextricably tied to Western Hegemony in the middle east? Isn’t it also obvious that there is some potential interference(and lots more petroleum )in Iran ? Maybe it was a big political head fake… or an attempt at working a better deal on the spoils of future violence then they got with Bush. Probably?