If Afghanistan is its test, NATO is failing
Posted by seumasach on September 30, 2009
John Feffer
1st October, 2009
Celebrating its 60th birthday this year, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization [1] is looking peaked and significantly worse for wear. Aggressive and ineffectual, the organization shows signs of premature senility. Despite the smiles and reassuring rhetoric at its annual summits, its internal politics have become fractious to the point of dysfunction. Perhaps like any sexagenarian in this age of health-care crises and economic malaise, the transatlantic alliance is simply anxious about its future.
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