The U.S. once created military alliances to advance its own security. Today Washington treats them like social organizations, which every nation should be invited to join, irrespective of qualification.
So it is with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s vote to admit Montenegro, a quaint but geopolitically irrelevant Balkan state, into NATO. If the measure is approved by the full Senate, Americans will have yet another essentially useless defense dependent, this one a corrupt, long-time one-party gangster state. Quite a model for future alliance expansion.
NATO was established to shield war-ravaged Western Europe from the Soviet menace after the end of World …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
