Both Ukraine's and Georgia's membership applications have been denied by NATO for now. Hey, they could always reform the Warsaw Pact, right?
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
I was a little torqued yesterday while watching the news that many of the European countries were 'upset with the U.S.' when the U.S. granted control over Afghanistan to NATO, because we were just 'dumping it in their laps'. I'm thinking, okay, so we're damned if we go in and take charge and do things ourselves, and we're damned if we give them control where they might have to actually DO something?! Grrr....