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AuH20
06-17-2011, 07:17 PM
Fabulous article. Try to spread this around. It's loaded with gems

http://buchanan.org/blog/fed-up-with-freeloaders-4781


Only five of 28 members invest in defense the 2 percent of gross domestic product required by NATO rules. Major members like the Netherlands, Spain and Turkey refuse to fly air strikes in Libya. France and Britain have run so low on munitions in a war against a sandbox country on the African coast that they have had to borrow U.S. munitions. Germany and Poland are AWOL.

suoulfrepus
06-17-2011, 07:22 PM
Two percent of GDP in "defense" is excessive. They should withdraw from Nato so they don't have to participate in its aggressive wars and expand their military industrial complex.

Pericles
06-17-2011, 11:58 PM
Some history:

In Sandbox I, the US had to buy 120mm tank ammunition from Germany because our stockpile was so low.

In 1994 in Bosnia, NATO got cajoled into "peacekeeping" with the US providing the enforcement.

NATO has been on the down slope ever since.