Afghanistan: NATO's Graveyard?

Is the Transatlantic Alliance Doomed?

Celebrating its 60th birthday this year, NATO is looking peaked and significantly worse for wear. Aggressive and ineffectual, the organization shows signs of premature senility. Despite the smiles and reassuring rhetoric at its annual summits, its internal politics have become fractious to the point of dysfunction. Perhaps like any sexagenarian in this age of health-care crises and economic malaise, the transatlantic alliance is simply anxious about its ... Full Story »

Posted by Dwight Rousu - via NewsRack (Afghanistan)
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Sep 30, 2009 - 7:36 AM PDT
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Oct 1, 2009 - 8:18 PM PDT

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by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2009

Feffer looks at NATO problems reflected in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Aspects he brings forward are indeed noteworthy. He omits identifying the use of NATO in various illegal wars as attempts by the bellicose in the US to bypass the UN and create a military empire.

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