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France's NATO Gambit--Who's "unilateral" now?
Wall St Journal ^
| October 21, 2003
Posted on 10/21/2003 5:17:24 AM PDT by SJackson
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:50:09 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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NATO is the ultimate coalition of the willing. An alliance of democracies, it can only exist if its members agree to remain united. That's why the French effort to create an independent European defense organization, with a separate headquarters, needs to be understood as an attempt to undermine the only official institution that binds the West.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: france; nato; unilateral
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To: ffusco
True, but there are better locations that we can use.
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posted on
10/21/2003 10:04:36 AM PDT
by
sd-joe
To: ffusco
No. All US bases in Germany are NATO-assigned, since 1994. In some US facilities we also have native forces (e.g. Ramstein as the typical NATO-base), but most are US-only. And since January, my comrades guard these facilities.
In addition, some US facilities are also used by us (e.g. Grafenwoehr Training Area), but that´s due to bilateral contracts.
To: sd-joe
Poland!
23
posted on
10/21/2003 10:15:01 AM PDT
by
ffusco
(Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
To: Teacher317
>If
Germany, France, and half of the Balkans
allied and attacked Russia, Poland, Iberia and the other half of the Balkans in an conquest effort, would we intervene this time around?
You might just as well
ask if we could safely eat
cheese brought from the moon...
To: Ragtime Cowgirl; SJackson; Grampa Dave; SAMWolf
A rude, arrogant people somewhere in Europe laboring under the delusion that they still matter.
25
posted on
10/21/2003 12:32:41 PM PDT
by
PhilDragoo
(Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
To: PhilDragoo
A rude/arrogant group of Euro Trash who deserve the American Boycott of their products and services.
26
posted on
10/21/2003 12:40:22 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Bump!
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