I wonder what George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would say about NATO membership and where that will lead us.
"It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world": it was George Washington's Farewell Address to us. The inaugural pledge of Thomas Jefferson was no less clear: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations-entangling alliances with none."
The NATO construct is outdated and needs to be reconstituted without the United States as part of it. Europe needs to resource and fund its own defense force, and the United States needs to be able to operate it’s military without the constraint and/or obligation NATO imposes.