OP-ED: The slowly vanishing NATO, By Anne Applebaum, Washington Post, October 20, 2009

I'm not generally a fan of Applebaum, but this is a killer piece, the tag line being that NATO countries tend to talk about their boys fighting and dying for the Americans.

That, in a nutshell, is why the EU will never be a true world power in my mind. The Europeans see obligation, not responsibility, when it comes to global order.

Oh, they talk big all right.

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