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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (7690)	11/27/2000 7:53:05 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

I think people will be surprised at how America First oriented this administration will be. (Their detractors will call them isolationists.) If I remember right, Colin Powell was against the Gulf War. I doubt they'll be advocating a weakening of NATO, though. After all, we like to expand NATO so we can add another customer to our list of weapons buyers. But they will be nowhere near as bellicose as the Clinton administration has been. The rapid reaction force is probably a reaction to the morphing of NATO from being a military alliance to defend the freedom of its members into a political instrument with globalist aims. According to Article 5 of the 1949 Washington Treaty, Nato was to be used only when one of its members was attacked. But in Nato’s new documents, Article 5 has been discarded. Here is an article that relates to what your article says. antiwar.com