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Lord Ismay, the British first Secretary General of NATO, said that its purpose was "to keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down." In-depth analysis of the considerations which led to the creation of NATO and sustained its unity for most of its 47 year old history suggests that they are no longer present and that attempts to prop up its tottering structure or to expand its role are not consistent with American vital interests.

In retrospect, it was in the geopolitical interests of the United States and its Western allies to create NATO in 1949. Twice in this century, American military intervention was necessary to counter the threat of G

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articipation would assuage West European fears of Germany and add German strength to the anti-Soviet effort. Franco-German rivalry is now a relic of the past. The irredentism which fueled Nazi expansionism was solved by the forced transfer back to Germany in 1945 of German minorities elsewhere. Kristol says that a reunified "Germany may end up as the dominant economic power in Europe . . . but this has no foreign policy implications." In fact, the challenge is not so much to restrain the Germans but to overcome their constitutional and other objections to sending forces abroad. Recently, Germany has sent troops to Cambodia, Somalia and Bosnia. The German Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that Germany could accept obligations arising out of its international security commitments. The principal threats to European security are ethnic and religious conflicts, which NATO is ill-suited to meet, as recent experiences in Bosnia have demonstrated. According to Karatncky, "NATO has failed to develop a compelling post-Cold War role. Reduced to a marginal role in the former Yugoslavia, the alliance today is an elaborate security structure for a part of the world whose security is not threatened." Unwisdom of Expanding NATO Runer
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