The President of the United States and NATO commanders on the ground in Afghanistan have requested more troops to fight a resurgent Taliban.
Our old friends, the French, Germans, Italians and Spanish have told us thanks, but no thanks. And remember, this is Afghanistan, “the Good War.” Our newer friends, the Poles and Romanians have agreed to send troops.
Let us contemplate this latest of outrages and its implications. While U.S. withdrawal from the corrupt and worthless UN might not be in the cards right now — a Patriot can dream can’t he? — it is time to begin the conversation about America’s withdrawal from NATO. Why not? As Denis Boyles puts it, NATO is “less a military alliance than a massive welfare fraud in which rich european countries bilk American taxpayers in order to avoid paying for their own defense.”
The EU has a population that exceeds ours. Their combined economy is about the size of ours. Yet, collectively and individually, they spend less than 1% of their GDP on defense. Their war-fighting gear is obsolete. Only the British can operate on the same battlefield as the U.S.
The Europeans have acquiesced in the islamofication of their nations. If they will not, now, hold up their end in matters of mutual defense, why should Americans shoulder our burden and theirs? It is too much to hope that the European nations will suddenly wake up and/or grow up. But it is not too much to ask that we let them complete their slide into irrelevance and, in the end, disaster on their own without American subsidy.
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