I must say NATO has been extremely good at peace keeping. It kept the Russians from invading all through the cold war, and it will keep that peace in the future too.
These colonial police actions which are often labeled peace keeping is nothing for NATO to deal with though - that was just to give the organisation a raison d'être until the Russians got back on their feet. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
Aha, so it was directed at Russia after all! Good news for the once and future Communist fighters that they'll have a real enemy again, I suppose. Too bad that proxy war in Georgia didn't work out too well. "The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde
Worrying about Russian is not being a neocon, it's just taking a sober look at the last century and seeing Europe can be a very nasty place.
if the international community disagree with a particular American stance, the US will simply bypass the international community, even if it involves military operations.
