Goodwin questions Obama's references to NATO. But Dwight Eisenhower in 1949 said of NATO when it was founded, "If it exists in ten years it will have been a failure." NATO is one of many government creations that refuse to die. It won't even fade away. ABC News (Raleigh-Durham NC) announced that 2200 Marines and Sailors will be deployed to Libya.
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=8039326
No ground troops?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/perplexed_over_saber_prattling_KTGY1TLtuWye2zzfwUF0gP
Perplexed over saber 'prattling'
Michael Goodwin
New York Post
Last Updated: 2:52 AM, March 30, 2011
Posted: 1:24 AM, March 30, 2011
The NATO Alliance is "defensive" in Nature. In Libya, it has gone beyond its authority under the North Atlantic Treaty, as ratified. Nothing in Article 5 authorizes NATO to send military forces into North Africa unless a member state is attacked. It is time the United States disengaged from this treaty which has lost its original purpose.
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