MUNICH – Diplomatic events are always made smoother by a touch of ambiguity. But at this year’s Munich Security Conference, the annual gathering of the the transatlantic alliance, the ambiguity shaded into something a little weirder. Speaker after speaker called for unity and cohesion in the face of the grave dangers facing the Western alliance. But nobody could quite bring themselves to say the truth out loud: that one of the gravest dangers facing the Western alliance is the president of the United States.
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Former prisoners of Nazi concentration camp Dachau, Abba Naor from Israel (2L), US Vice President Michael Richard Pence (C) and chairwoman of the Jewish Community in Munich, Charlotte Knobloch (4R) walk towards the Jewish memorial at the former Nazi concentration camp of Dachau, southwestern Germany, on February 19, 2017.
