Initially imagined as a mutual defensive alliance, NATO’s initial purpose is long gone, and the alliance seems to be drifting inexorably toward being a collective lobby for military spending alliance-wide.
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen spent yesterday browbeating member nations who, facing massive budget deficits, are considering cutting military spending. Today, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta joined in.
Focusing primarily on condemning “irresponsible” considerations of cuts in US military spending, Panetta also piled on for the rest of the alliance, warning that NATO’s readiness is at stake and its militaries could be “stretched too thin.”
Of course entirely absent in all NATO conversations is whether they could avoid being overstretched by simply not starting so many wars, and with officials starting with the assumption that NATO must be able to start any and all conflicts that strike their fancy at any given moment, they continue with the conclusion that spending must always grow.
Is Panetta trying to imitate Richard Nixon in that photo?
Starve your nation.., as they do in England and France.., as in Greece and Spain.., as in…, but don't cut the militarism budget.., this man repeating what that Danish guy Ratt Moussen said yesterday…, starve your nations but don't cut the military budget because we have more wars to conduct.., in Africa.., in Middle East.., and in South Pacific.., South America.., now that we have Obama we will have more wars and we will win all of them and rule the world.., one day. Yapppeeee
Military terrorism — Best money maker of all time
The Western world has excessive wealth, due mainly to our terrorizing the Middle-East into trading their oil for our war materials, thanks in no small part to a most brutal and imperial Israel.
Do the Americans and Israelis have any even remote idea of how their incessant use of the word "must" is alienating the rest of the world? Or has their arrogance reached a point where they no longer care?
OK– dumb question x2 . . .
Is this guy insane or what?