Washington Post

NATO leaders endorse Obama’s Afghanistan exit plan:

Why shouldn’t they endorse what Obama is proposing? The vast majority of NATO’s members had little to no involvement in any of the wars that the USA has been involved for the last 40 years. They just show up at the lavish meetings with a plastic bags to take home all the left overs.

NATO leaders on Monday adopted President Barack Obama’s exit strategy from the nearly 11-year-old U.S.-led intervention in Afghanistan, cementing an “irreversible” pullout of foreign combat troops that will leave Afghan security forces with the leading role in combat operations by the summer of 2013.

To start with; the same thing that occurred in Iraq and is still going on there is going to happen in Afghanistan when the troops leave; if it is in 2013 or 2030.

Who are the NATO countries:

Albania – Belgium – Canada – Croatia – Czech Republic – Denmark – Estonia – France – Germany – Greece- Hungary – Iceland – Italy – Latvia – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Netherlands – Norway – Poland – Portugal – Romania – Slovakia – Slovenia – Spain – Turkey – United Kingdom – United States.

How many of these countries contributed militarily and monetarily to the Iraq and Afghanistan? On the reverse side of the coin, it can be that they are a lot smarter than the USA is because they knew we didn’t belong there in the first place. George and Dick were not going to have their war regardless of what anyone said.

Be that as it may and focusing on NATO; shouldn’t  it be the premise that any organization and its memberships should share in the expenses and other obligations equally? Well this certainly has not been the standard with NATO.

For quite sometime NATO has been a joke and the USA and a few other countries that carry the bulk of the load are the laughing stock of the world.

On 4 April 1949, the foreign ministers from 12 countries signed the North Atlantic Treaty at the Departmental Auditorium in Washington D.C.: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The agreement/arrangement was initiated so if any other country outside of the NATO group that attempted to or did attack any of the member countries the NATO forces would group together and quell the attack.

As NATO evolved the organization was also to ban together if and when there was a threat to international security.

Needless to say, the USA with its never-ending source of money (we just print more when we are running low) decides to be the big shot and assume about 85 – 90% of the burden when any military action anywhere in the world was needed. I call the USA “the watch dog of the world”.

I have absolutely no objection for us doing “our part” to try to keep the world safe but our generosity has been taken for granted and abused to the max and we have let it happen. The old say is “Too much kindness breeds stupidity”.

In what book or on what stone is it written that the USA always assumes the majority of all military action and expense around the world?

Recently Mitch McConnell, Senate Republican Leader said; the USA May Need Force Against Iran if they proceed with their plans to make a nuclear weapon. Is this guy nuts? Don’t we have enough to deal with as it is?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/mitch-mcconnell-iran_n_1322508.html

So we get back to the same old story. “Don’t worry about it; the USA will take care of it”. Where are all of the other NATO countries that are supposed to aid and assist?

NATO should be set up so that each country that is a member does it fair share/equal percentage according to their population. Sharing the expense and man power would take a great weight off of the USA’s shoulders.

I know a few people who remind me of the NATO members. You can take them to dinner every night of the week; as soon as the check comes they have to make a “WC call”.

I agree that there is strength in unity but when a countries like the USA, the UK and a few others are waist-high in excrement and there is no on there to throw them a life line; I would think that it is about time to re-access their position in some of these sham organizations.

Life goes on as usual in politics!!