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发帖数: 45075 | 1 Trans-Atlantic Illusions
NATO should have gone out of business a decade ago.
By Wayne Merry
A silver lining in the trans-Atlantic storm clouds over Iraq is the damage
done to NATO. This costly foreign entanglement was long overdue for a body
blow.
NATO was not intended, by Americans at least, to be a permanent commitment,
but an interim measure while Western Europe recovered from the War. When the
first Supreme Allied Commander, Dwight Eisenhower, obtained congressional
consent to station U.S. d |
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