From Saudi Arabia to the Normandy Beaches

From the Arab world to the Normandy beaches in France with a short stop over in Germany, president Obama is trying to use his travels to obtain understanding for the US among the Muslims, maybe help from his European allies for the Afghanistan war and the closing of Guantanamo.
In what respects the Muslims, they will probably wait to see if he follows on his promises. His speeches are good but as it has been said they are just speeches. All is needed is a good speech writer and good ideas from the President. So we will see in the months to come what changes if anything in the Middle East. Blame and praise for two different people such as Palestinians and Israelis can be said easily. What might follow from it is much more difficult to predict.
In what respects Germany, as President Obama said today, he hasn’t asked Germany to take specific detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and that Chancellor Angela Merkel hasn’t agreed to any “hard commitments.” The situation could be said is at a little bit of an impasse with Germany being asked to take a dozen prisoners and German officials saying they should be resettled in the United States .
In any case Merkel and Obama already had their talks and the US president after a visit to Dresden, the Buchenwald concentration camp and Landstuhl medical hospital, for private visits with U.S. troops recovering from wounds sustained in Iraq and Afghanistan, was flying to Paris to be reunited with his wife and daughters prior to Saturday’s commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the Allies’ D-Day invasion in France.