Your statement that "For all intents and purposes, NATO no longer has a common strategic vision that any country could oppose. turns FR into THE ONION webzine.
I would not say you are unfamiliar with NATO politics and propaganda tactics, quite contrary. I am familiar with the tone you use, I hear it every day. You have to try harder to succeed on FR Balkan Front :-)
Last week, an assistant to Lord Robertson's chief political advisers for Eastern Europe was arrested for laundering $200 Million of drug money. Albanian mafia and its KLA armed branch are holding Kosovo. United States Army is there and "see no evil, hears no evil..." DEA also.
KLA is inside NATO and through it Al Qaeda as well.
US Army, CIA and drugs. Golden triangle, revisited.
Anyone wanting to bring NATO's Golden triangle into law and order is violating the flow of drugs and profits.
When in doubt, follow the money.