NATO

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/nato-has ... reign-aid/


"The NATO summit starts Sunday in Chicago and will be the largest gathering ever held by the alliance. This is fitting given NATO’s desire to act around the globe. While U.S. officials say no decisions on further expanding membership will be made at the meeting, they explain that the door remains open. Adding additional security commitments in this way would be a mistake.


The United States has always been and will continue to be the guarantor of NATO’s military promises. In reality, NATO could not pay its bills without the United States, much less conduct serious military operations. American alliance policy has become a form of foreign aid. Nowhere is that more true than in Europe.

America’s alliances once had a serious purpose: to increase U.S. security. NATO joined the United States and Western Europe to prevent the Soviet Union from dominating Eurasia. The alliance lost its raison d’être in 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell. Communist regimes throughout Eastern Europe had toppled. The Warsaw Pact soon dissolved. Ultimately the Soviet Union collapsed.

Yet 23 years later NATO labors on,"..........................................

Why exactly are they protesting? Global militarization? NATO is pretty much a shell of its former self.

I find it reprehensible that we're bankrolling NATO and the UN, but especially now given our economic problems.

NATO should have died when the USSR did. What are 53,000 US troops doing in Germany except subtracting from our economy and adding to theirs.

edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta ... eployments

Not so fast! NATO helped us spend lots of our own money enforcing the no fly zone over Libya. How else would Barry have been able to help the rebels overthrow Muammar Gaddafi's evil empire? Let's also not loose sit of all of the help NATO has given the new Libya in forming their new Gubment...