Its an election year and as usual most GOP candidates have attacked the UN in one fashion or another….they have accused of everything from being ineffective to being the leader of a new world order…..but this year a new attack has been leveled at another of the many international organizations that we are members of….NATO….the North Atlantic Treaty Organization…..
NATO’s essential purpose is to safeguard the freedom and security of its members through political and military means.
POLITICAL – NATO promotes democratic values and encourages consultation and cooperation on defence and security issues to build trust and, in the long run, prevent conflict.
MILITARY – NATO is committed to the peaceful resolution of disputes. If diplomatic efforts fail, it has the military capacity needed to undertake crisis-management operations. These are carried out under Article 5 of the Washington Treaty – NATO’s founding treaty – or under a UN mandate, alone or in cooperation with other countries and international organizations.
But it appear that at least one GOP candidate, Donald Trump, says that the US should bow out of NATO……a fringe stand at best….but could this candidate be right?
NATO will celebrate its sixty-seventh anniversary in April. Instead of being an occasion for the usual expression of mind-numbing clichés about the alliance’s enduring importance both to U.S. security and world peace, it should become an opportunity for a long overdue assessment of whether the NATO commitment truly serves America’s best interests in the twenty-first century. There is mounting evidence that it does not.
Source: Is it Time for America to Quit NATO? | The National Interest Blog
NATO is being used as a cover for many military interventions and the way that they seem to multiply exponentially maybe it is time to bow out of NATO….the whole idea of a NATO-like organization has become obsolete…..
Unlike many libertarians, I love presidential election season, because that’s when generally ignored foreign policy issues are discussed beyond the small circle of Washington wonks. And that’s why I’m having such fun with Donald Trump – much to the annoyance of some of my readers, both libertarians and liberals alike: because he’s provoking a much-needed […]
Source: NATO: Worse Than ‘Obsolete’ – Antiwar.com Original by — Antiwar.com
I am in the corner of those that say we need to eliminate our membership in NATO….in my opinion, it is too easy for us to go to war at the drop of a hat…..we enter into conflict without any debate or oversight…that smacks of empire….
Yes I said EMPIRE!
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