The future of NATO rides on whether or not Germany, France, and Belgium block Turkey's request for NATO protection.
If those countries block it, NATO is dead as an alliance. It will also indicate that no UN Resolution authorizing force will pass.
It is incredible to me that these nations would sacrifice NATO in order to protect Saddam Hussein, but that's what it's coming down to.
Europe will either fracture on Monday, or it will decide to follow the US lead and do the right thing.
Monday is a decisive day in world history.
Speaks volumes, doesn't it
If those countries block it, NATO is dead as an alliance. It will also indicate that no UN Resolution authorizing force will pass.
It is incredible to me that these nations would sacrifice NATO in order to protect Saddam Hussein, but that's what it's coming down to.
Europe will either fracture on Monday, or it will decide to follow the US lead and do the right thing.
Monday is a decisive day in world history.
I don't see any media reports that lay it out as all that important!
Where in the hell is our media that is suppose to be watching over the American's welfare?
France and Germany...shame on you!
I am with you on that one. If Germany, France, and Belgium block the request from Turkey for help, NATO is effectively dead. Same fate will then befall the UN!
Are Germany and France ready to go that far? If I were betting, I sure wouldn't bet on them coming around as far out on the limb as they have gone.
That is their intention. Since the Fall of The Warsaw Pact and the expansion of NATO, France and Germany have looked for a pretext to drive us out of NATO so that they could form a new Alliance with themselves in the center.
The fact that almost all of NATO and the NATO wannabes have sided with us has to be making them very very twitchy. They must have nightmares in which we stay in NATO and they are pushed out along with Greece and Belgium.
A political analyst named Tunku V. (from the Wall Street Journal) said on television about 3 months ago that NATO was really the USA, Great Britain, and Turkey...the only real military powers...he predicted that NATO would eventually welcome some of the smaller Asian Muslim countries like Uzbekistan, etc. out of deference to Turkey's unique role in bridging the gap between the West and the Muslim world...as a secular Muslim country Turkey may emerge from this war on terror a much more influential player than the French and the Germans...we certainly live in interesting times...thank God we have FR to come to and exchange ideas.