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To: sylvester80 who wrote (174164)	11/8/2005 8:19:16 AM
From: Rarebird	Respond to of 281500

>>Romania and Poland are members of the NATO military alliance and are among Washington's staunchest allies in Europe. They both supported the U.S.-led war against Iraq and sent troops to Iraq and Afghanistan.<< The NATO alliance is withering away for the simple reason that none of the governments in Europe are doing anything about their defense budgets except to make them progressively smaller. While that takes pressure off European budgets, geo-strategically, it leaves the US armed forces with no secondary force behind them (except from some token forces from Eastern Europe) and it throws the entire burden of any military enterprise on those US armed forces. De-facto, in military as well as geo-strategic terms, the US does NOT have a military alliance with Europe. The Europeans are not there in military terms. Geo-politically, NATO still looks like a mighty alliance - but except for its extensive bases all across Europe where US forces are - NATO is gone.