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| The collapse of Nato |
| 2004-12-29 |
| Via EU Referendum, this is part of the post, the Times article requires registration: Without any specific topical "hook", today's Times sees a letter published from Professor Alan Lee Williams, Director, Atlantic Council of the United Kingdom, who recently attended the 50th anniversary of the Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA) in Rome. There, he informs us, some 40 countries reaffirmed their support for Nato and the transatlantic alliance, declaring their hopes that America would continue to play a central role in formulating strategic concepts compatible with the development of the alliance's Response Force and its newly achieved operational capability. However, writes Prof. Williams, "this show of support by ATA masked its underlying anxiety about the best way of reconciling Europe's strategic culture with the reality of American power." Opponents of the Iraq war: France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, together with Greece and Luxembourg, apparently regard the fledgling EU Rapid-Reaction Battle Groups as the basis of a possible European superpower.... There's some other goodies (and ARIS comments) there, I suggest you scroll down, especially the post about the coming EU waste regs and Scotland's sludge. That monstrosity won't work, but they're going to be a real pain until they collapse. |
| Posted by:anonymous2U |
| #2 Hey, after The Ukraine, who knows what Pooty-Poot's gonna do? He's not going to take it lying down, either. |
| Posted by: Jeremp Glavigum9721 2004-12-29 7:07:23 PM |
| #1 I believe it is vital to preserve NATO to stop wave after wave of massed Russian tanks from charging through the Fulda Gap. What's that? Ain't gonna happen? Oh! Well, then, never mind! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2004-12-29 6:49:37 PM |