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I despair for civilization. "When the abyss stares at me, it wets its pants." Brian Hopkins
I heard today that Wolfowitz is taking over as head of the U.S. contingent in about two months. "When the abyss stares at me, it wets its pants." Brian Hopkins
NATO is the instrument whereby US policy becomes the policy of the "international community", and thus takes on added legitimacy. NATO is the diplomacy-laundering operation of the White House. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
I feel that if NATO dissolves, then ever member is poorer because of it. Likely a totally American view point, but we need friends -- in sickness and in health.
Put it this way, America has fallen ill and now needs help. Presently seems to be having a difficult time help itself. Can NATO or Europe, somehow, help revitalize an old partner?
Whenever he says such a person or country has "shown leadership" or needs to "show leadership", it invariably means they did or should do what he wants.
In the Bushie up-is-down dictionary, "leadership" means "obedience". When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
