From The Washington Post:
Less than a month into the Libyan conflict, NATO is running short of precision bombs, highlighting the limitations of Britain, France and other European countries in sustaining even a relatively small military action over an extended period of time, according to senior NATO and U.S. officials.
The shortage of European munitions, along with the limited number of aircraft available, has raised doubts among some officials about whether the United States can continue to avoid returning to the air campaign if Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi hangs on to power for several more months…
Half a century of living off the United States has led to this – the entirety of Europe cannot sustain a month-long aerial campaign against a 5th rate power like Libya. These are the nations which are pledged to rush in to war with us if we were ever, say, attacked by China? It is a complete joke and waste of time even trying to breath life in to such a dead thing.
Think of it like this – after World War One, the allies limited Germany to an army of no more than 100,000 men. The size of the German army today? Less than 90,000. A nation of nearly 82 million people has less than 100,000 soldiers in its army. France has 123,000. Britain 144,000. Italy 108,000. Spain 82,000. We have 600,00 active army soldiers. More than all of those countries, combined.
Europe is a senile, dying area of the world – 100 years ago they were burgeoning and active. Given that even as long ago as that they had forgotten what made them, they took all that they had and smashed it up in two world wars. Now they are so debilitated they can’t even bestir themselves to maintain military forces capable of self defense. If China could simply figure out a way to move an army to Europe, Europe would be theirs for the asking. It wouldn’t even be a fight.
And so why are we “allied” with such decrepit nations? Alliances, indeed – let us have alliances. But alliances with people who have at least some spirit. India; Columbia, South Korea, Thailand…these places have both common interests with us as well as people who have some grit and determination. Meanwhile, we’re shackled to a political, economic and military corpse. Enough of this – end the asinine NATO alliance. Who knows but that it may finally wake the Europeans up? But at all events, do not continue to tie America to such a millstone.
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