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Subject: NATO: In The Devil's Own Words
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> From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Thus spaketh the Grand Chess Master of
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> Dawn (Pakistan)/International Herald Tribune (UK)
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> NATO, European Union need to grow together
> May 18, 2001
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> By Zbigniew Brzezinski
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> WASHINGTON, The NATO began as a security treaty among
> a number of sovereign states, and formally that is
> still the case with its current 19 members. But as the
> European Union both integrates and expands, NATO is
> effectively becoming an alliance between the US and
> Europe.
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> Almost all European members of NATO are also members
> of the EU, and NATO's most recent three new members
> are also actively negotiating admission. The political
> criteria for membership in NATO and the EU are the
> same. The overlap between NATO and the EU is thus a
> new and globally significant geostrategic reality.
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> It will have to be faced next year at summit meetings
> of the EU in Copenhagen and of NATO in Prague. Since
> the EU will continue to expand, it is conducting
> accession negotiations with 11 states, it follows that
> it would be absurd if in the future NATO were
> committed to the defense of, say, only three-quarters
> of the EU. Such a situation could foster genuine
> insecurity in the unprotected one-fourth.
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> The threat once posed by the Soviet Union is gone and
> Russia is engaged in a difficult process of
> self-redefinition. As a consequence, NATO is being
> transformed from a defensive alliance focused on a
> very clear danger into an integrated security
> coalition that spans the European-Atlantic space and
> is capable of reacting to threats to peace both within
> and near that region. Given these realities, what next
> for NATO's enlargement?
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> Since NATO is a military alliance and not a unilateral
> guarantee of protection, every member must be credibly
> committed to self-defense as well as be ready to make
> a tangible contribution to collective security even
> when itself not directly threatened. For the process
> of enlargement to remain politically vital, it is also
> important that the most recent three members fully
> carry out the commitments they undertook prior to
> membership. Failure to do so by Poland, Hungary or the
> Czech Republic would certainly be exploited by
> opponents of expansion.
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> The process of admission to NATO is unpredictable and
> subject to capricious politics. This should not be so.
> The enlargement of NATO should be neither a
> bookkeeping exercise, nor a bureaucratised guessing
> game, nor a political bazaar. -Dawn/The International
> Herald Tribune News Service.
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