lin Wall came down in August, 1989, "it is time to recognize that NATO expired." Serious opposition to NATO and certainly any expansion of its role, began in the early 1980s and is still today a minority among leading intellectuals and other informed observers. It covers many elements of the political spectrum in Western Europe and the United States, which Rosner described as follows:
"isolationists opposed to further security commitments, internationalists who see enlargement as antagonistic to Russia and unnecessary for the region's political and economic development and security and hawks who worry that
additional states will weaken the alliance's defenses, strain the current members' shrinking military resources, and risk leaks of sensitive information."
A leading conservative critic of NATO, Irving Kristol, says that "NATO is a vast irrelevance. Let it slide into obsol
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