[MitchellC]

If anything, we ought to be thinking about pulling out of NATO ourselves. European countries already have the wealth to produce their own military defense. If they do not have the will, that is their problem. What American officials can do is keep their mouths shut if they don't intend to back up their words.

Ouch. I agree with Sowell. We shouldn't be setting ourselves up as the defender of other country on the planet, especially when we don't have the will to go through with it. What Russia is doing to Georgia sucks, but they've effectively called our bluff.

NATO is our military's welfare handout to Europe, and is probably a large part of the reason they're fat, lazy and dying. Give the former Warsaw Pact countries a generation to forget, and they'll be spoiled too. We'd all be better off if they moved out and started taking care of themselves.

[MitchellC]

Make that, every other country on the planet.