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>>Cool down, lol. I am German, and I certainly doubt that deliberating with partners before pre-emptive strikes means giving them a veto on your security.<<

Actually. . .it does.

If you consult with "partners" it is a sure bet if those partners disagree strongly with you (like in Iraq), they would leak your intentions and that, in effect, is a veto. Just look at the mess the Balkans became when you have 14 nations tinkering with the strategic campaign plan. . .the target list was leaked and the target sets identified publicly. . .the end result a lot of rocks and empty buildings moved around and to no strategic end.

Well, what are we talking about? Are we talking about behaving as you please worldwide or are we talking about a veto about the national security of the US? If we were talking about the first, you could indeed leave NATO, the UN, the OSCE, because talking would make no sense anymore. If we were talking about the latter, your given example of Kosovo is not fitting, because the situation in Serbia never posed a threat to the alliance. I agree with you that some nations in the alliance have consistently undermined the efforts in the war and cooperated with the enemy. Though, it was not a veto.