Despite your claim that there is a need for NATO: radical Islam, NATO was a creation of the Cold War and was created to counter the Soviet Union. Even so, NATO is about as useful as the defunct, corrupt, and worthless UN....both of which have long outlived their purposes...hell, with out us, they cannot even beat themselves out of a wet paper bag ...remember, they could not even muster enough fighter bombers to bomb Libya...now they want to invade Libya? LOL! What a frakin’ joke. One could only hope that Qaddafi turned Libya into another Vietnam. We have NO BUSINESS being there or involved, period! =.=