Irving Kristol Was 40 Years Ahead of His Time About NATO, realcleardefense.com

[…] But it was Irving Kristol, ironically one of the founders of the neoconservative movement in America, who laid out the most forceful case for ending U.S. participation in NATO. In an article published in the New York Times Magazine in September 1983, Kristol called for an “all-European NATO, with the United States an ally but not a member.” Kristol’s European NATO would have its own nuclear weapons (Britain and France already have such weapons) and its own military strategy—independent of U.S. strategy. The problem with NATO then, Kristol wrote, was its absolute dependency on the United States. “If we have learned anything from the NATO experience of the last 30 years,” Kristol wrote, “it is the rediscovery of an old truth: Dependency corrupts and absolute dependency corrupts absolutely.” This dependency, Kristol argued, sapped Europe’s will and diminished its political vitality. Läs artikel