February 28, 2003
US Out Of Europe!

Just found a blog: Clubbeaux. Here's a sample:

NATO was never a bunch of friends who got together because they all liked each other, it was a town's citizens manning the ramparts in a time of crisis. You may not like your neighbor, but when an outside threat comes you stand shoulder to shoulder with him. When the crisis ends, the citizens go home to their respective interests.

I couldn't agree more.

Let's get out of these old alliances before they get us into real trouble. Remember WWI? Serbia had an alliance with Russia (1912). Germany had an alliance with Austria (1879). Britain had an alliance with France (1904).

The Soviet threat is gone. NATO doesn't have a mission anymore, and the invocation of article V and subsequent inaction of our "allies" has shown it to be a dead letter.

Let's move for the dissolution of the North Atlantic council. We can write bilateral treaties with any non-weasel states worth our time, but the responsibility for securing civil order in Europe should be left to the Europeans.

Posted by Sam at 11:05 PM