The Editorial that I found on the Dallas Morning News stuck out to me right away. President Obama announced in his State of the Union address that he plans to create a trade treaty with the countries in the European Union. This was a bit of a surprise due to the fact that the President Obama has not focused on foreign trade during his last term.
A trade
relationship with Europe would benefit both the US and Europe. The writer
explains that if our trading relationship expanded it would result in lower
tariffs and duties for American and Texan companies. This idea of trading with Europe
is still premature, if the US decided to go through with it, there would be
extensive negotiation, especially on labor laws and environmental standards,
which are more lenient here.
The writer
compares President Obama to presidents that have taken actions that surprised
and defied what the people believed to be in the country’s best interest. For
example Reagan’s relationship with communist Gorbachev during the Cold War and Nixon’s
relationship with China. This could potentially be Obama’s legacy.
I think overall
the author did a good job in reviewing this idea, he provided information of
what the concept is, the benefits of it and brought up some issues that will
need to be resolved if this plan moves forward. I appreciated his reference to
past presidents and the correlation between their foreign relationships to this
current one.
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