NATO should have been disbanded when the Soviet Union broke up.
IMHO...
UN - let’s get out.
NATO - was great as long as we had most influence. As of zero taking office, that appears to not be the case any more.
To wit, europeans were bent on attacking libya and we chimed in as second banana in support role. first time that I remember that happening. If we are not “driving” it becomes a “foreign entanglement”, an obligation, instead of proactively maintaining security worldwide like we did pre-nobama.
I’m not a big fan of NATO or of Gates. I think they both should go.
We need a strong alliance of countries willing to fight the global jihad.
NATO could be invaluable as the core of that alliance, but the NATO countries need to start by winning the internal battle against Islamification which they are not winning now.
Let’s remember that one of the reasons we still have NATO bases in Europe and other locations around the world is to make the logistical needs of the U.S. military easier. We pre-position a lot of equipment and troops in these locations to make the projection of U.S. POWER easier.
If we need to get involved militarily in the future, regardless of where, it’s far more difficult if we have to start the engagement and troop movement solely from the U.S.
“The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the U.S. Congress — and in the American body politic writ large — to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense,” he said.
Without naming names, he blasted allies who are “willing and eager for American taxpayers to assume the growing security burden left by reductions in European defense budgets.”
Basically the U.S. has to pay for NATO. Time to dissolve NATO and let Europe deal with their own problems.
“The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the U.S. Congress — and in the American body politic writ large — to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense,” he said.
Without naming names, he blasted allies who are “willing and eager for American taxpayers to assume the growing security burden left by reductions in European defense budgets.”
Basically the U.S. has to pay for NATO. Time to dissolve NATO and let Europe deal with their own problems.
“The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the U.S. Congress — and in the American body politic writ large — to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense,” he said.
Without naming names, he blasted allies who are “willing and eager for American taxpayers to assume the growing security burden left by reductions in European defense budgets.”
Basically the U.S. has to pay for NATO. Time to dissolve NATO and let Europe deal with their own problems.
“The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the U.S. Congress — and in the American body politic writ large — to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense,” he said.
Without naming names, he blasted allies who are “willing and eager for American taxpayers to assume the growing security burden left by reductions in European defense budgets.”
Basically the U.S. has to pay for NATO. Time to dissolve NATO and let Europe deal with their own problems.