Because John Foster Dulles pushed for some mutual defense treaties 60 years ago without any idea of what the costs and benefits might be here and now, we do not have to have our hands tied by such obligations. The U.S. has all sorts of such treaties that should be repudiated. NATO is something that the U.S. should have withdrawn from once the USSR went away. SEATO was dissolved in 1977. That should have been the template for NATO.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/the-empires-justification/
My Polish friend says that the Warsaw Pact moved its headquarters to Brussels after the fall of the Soviet Union. So when will NATO move to New York?
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