What is NATO for?

On my favorite discussion board, the General Discussion Board of www.battlefront.com, we had a poster offer this reason:

"Guarantees if any of the European States get uppity again, the rest will dogpile it."

Actually, no.

This is why NATO was made; to correct the ongoing European Civil War condition. a perpetual state for hundreds of years. These folks truly relish killing each other.

The real reason;

To keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down...I don't recall who said it.

But, indeed, what is it for now?

It proved to be a serious joke in the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. I mean, why did we/they build all those Holocaust Museums? So they could never forget, but turn a blind eye to genocide, anyway?

It serves mainly as an excuse for the European nations to not fund their own militaries and to keep the US armed to protect themselves from each other and the boogie man.

We even had to put up with waging war with their boogie men; the Russians for nearly fifty years in an expensive and dangerous Cold War, always on the hair trigger of nuclear wupp each others ass into plutonic existence mode, and the Arabs, whose countries they decimated, especially during 'The Game' phase as they worked to rip apart the Ottoman Empire, and all the Asians they conquered, massacred, and drugged.

Though Europeans seem to have some nice military units (of small size), they lack significant logistical means to use them. That is of course because they are riding OUR bus!

NATO has served, apparently, to disarm European ability to have militarily backed up foreign policies. And they seem all too happy to stay that way. Why not? Get a free ride from those American blokes; they are so willing to help, let them help, and we can save all that money on a military and spend it on political campaigns to form an imperfect Union, based mainly on kicking Americans around and pandering to all the other nations they abused.

Blair's recent commentary on European anti-Americanism is spot on - don't be surprised that the next political wave in power in the US doesn't demand withdrawal from European engagement and become more Nationalistic and less international in behavior.

I so look forward to it.