American Withdrawal and Global Disorder -- Eliot Cohen, Wall Street JournalAs Obama ends U.S. security guarantees, nuclear weapons and violence will spread.
Since the days of the Monroe Doctrine, American foreign policy has rested on a global system of explicit or implicit commitments to use military power to guarantee the interests of the U.S. and its allies. The current administration has chosen to reduce, limit or underfund those commitments, and the results—which we may begin to see before President Obama's term ends—will be dangerous.
Some of America's commitments are enshrined in treaties, such as Article V of the North Atlantic Treaty, which says of NATO's 28 member countries that "an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all." Other commitments are less formal. The U.S. has no defense treaty with Israel, but repeated presidential declarations, including those Mr. Obama will make during his trip this week, amount to nearly the same thing.
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My Comment: A sobering assessment .... read it all.
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This article, typical of WSJ opinion, arrogantly and irresponsibly assumes options are A or B and therefore outcomes are C or D. Its not sobering. Its delusional
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