Re: [A-List] The end of NATO?

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 13/03/02 17:24 +0200, you wrote:
> Contradictions emerging within the emergent and urgent drive for a
> coherent EU defence policy concern NATO, whose troublesome presence is
> clearly irking its former Secretary General in his new role as EU
> foreign policy supremo. Meanwhile Britain is suggesting a role for NATO
> in Afghanistan. This would fulfil a number of British interests:
> spreading the costs of "peacekeeping"; keeping NATO alive as a means of
> "containing" the US; exerting British influence under the cloak of the
> NATO machinery (led by "Lord" George Robertson). Whether there remains
> sufficient patience within the EU itself is a debatable point.

I have a problem with the  volume and quality of your posts  to keep up
with - they are too good!

It helps to have a brief introduction like this.

I agree with Britain's tendency to play off the US against Europe, but I
think the events of the Bush administration are making it clear to the
British government that it must join euroland.

Chris Burford