Do what we have always done...Assume responsibility for ourselves and most of the people in the Free World.

Why, and what has it gotten us?

(I assume you see the contradiction in your statements... I only want to know what you really mean.)

While I have a certain sympathy with your pt of view EB, the question becomes, "Do what?"

Do what we have always done...Assume responsibility for ourselves and most of the people in the Free World.

It ain't hard to figure, we have assumed responsibility for protecting the free world for the last five or six decades.

Maybe, we can do without you.

While I have a certain sympathy with your pt of view EB, the question becomes, "Do what?"

Clearly, most members of the alliance don’t see failure in Afghanistan as an existential crisis to their own country’s security; why, then, is it an existential crisis for the alliance?

Come on!
Cut the damn psycho mumbo-jumbo.
You and your fellow countrymen, if threatened tomorrow, would get down on your cowardly knees and pray that the United States would protect you. You sit there in your smugness and ignorance and proclaim that a country who has spent vast portions of its national treasure and human resources is suddenly something you can do without.

Maybe, we can do without you.

what is NATO for?"

That is indeed the question.

the question indeed.

a "club" to which emerging democracies can aspire.

"We are all Georgians now."