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| Pâ•qidꞋ Yi•rᵊmᵊyâhꞋu |
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2003.02.16 – NATO was configured to defend against the Soviet Union. Thus, NATO's raison d'être, like the Soviet Union, no longer exists. Worse, the threat looming over the free world today – Sunni Wahhabi Islamist terrorism (the majority of whom are in Saudi Arabia) – bears no resemblance to the Soviet Union, and NATO isn't capable of being adapted to the new threat.
Islamist terrorism not only has an entirely different agenda as well as an entirely different modus operandi, but an entirely different geography too – none of which is relevant to NATO.
Whereas the 'Iron Curtain' split Europe, the closest that the 'Muslim Veil' gets to Europe is Turkey's southern and eastern borders. Instead of Russia threatening Europe, the 'Muslim Veil' threatens Russia's southeastern regions! The western limit of the 'Muslim Veil' comprises all of Israel's borders. On the south, the primary limit of the 'Muslim Veil' is India. This bears no resemblance whatsoever to NATO. NATO's raison d'être is gone and NATO is irrelevant to today's primary threat to world stability.
America and her allies would be well advised to reconfigure a new alliance of nations specifically configured against this new threat – without what Charles Krauthammer has called the 'Rhineland Four' (France, Germany, Belgium and Luxemburg).
Before NATO (and the UN), international problems were resolved through ad hoc alliances. After NATO and the UN, ad hoc alliances, improved by the Internet and other global connections, will once again solve international problems.
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