The United States Should Ditch NATO and Follow Britain out of Europe

New York Observer (Opinion) ^ | July 27, 2015 | Bernie Quigley

[Navy Patriot]

Suppose we had a war and Britain didn’t come? Which is sort of what happened in Syria when President Obama, on the advice of Samantha Power, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, declared that we must go in now, this afternoon. No time to discuss. Much as we had heard before in the maelstrom which is the Middle East. Surely, our allies, by which I think we mean Europe, the Atlantic Alliance or “the West,” led of course by our trusty sidekick, Britain, will fall in line. But overnight, the British Parliament voted to just say no.

And we thought we could always count on the Brits, ever since President Franklin Roosevelt sat quietly in conquest at Yalta, with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill on either side in February 1945. The iconic photo would mark the ages.

Or not. Possibly it would only mark the WW II post-war period, which might be about finished by now, as the conquistador’s dominion classically runs roughly only 70 years.

Next year we celebrate, if that is the correct phrase, the 70th anniversary of the publication of the “long telegram,” an icon as famous as that storied photograph. It was a plan for the future with America at center, designed by the legendary policy advisor George Kennan, from which came the domination of western and world culture by American initiatives, American culture and the American dollar, from which came the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the wall of containment of the Soviet Union.

[MinorityRepublican]

[mac_truck]

Near enough, the Observer is an extremely left wing rag.

In an age of digital media and free lance writers, the platform upon which an article appears is much less important than the content therein.

For instance you can read Bernie Quigley articles on Conservatives for Palin which no rational conservative would consider left wing.

Furthermore, the notion that the United States should stop subsidizing NATO and leave continental European security to the continental Europeans is well within the wheelhouse of traditional conservative thinking...despite what a few global interventionist trolls here might say.