Biden Takes 'America is Back' Message to Brussels

BRUSSELS - Joe Biden took his ‘America is Back’ message to Brussels, reaffirming the United States' commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, in his first NATO summit as U.S. president Monday.

“I just want all of Europe to know that the United States is there. The United States is there,” Biden said in his meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Biden said that he takes Article Five, which enshrines the military alliance’s collective defense principle, “as a sacred obligation.” “I constantly remind Americans, that when America was attacked for the first time in its shores since what happened back – it began in World War II, NATO stepped up,” Biden said referring to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.