Great News From Paris

Apparently, Sarkozy hasn't given the go-ahead for France to re-enter NATO's integrated military command.

Bruno Le Maire, the new French minister for Europe, speaking last week at a symposium in Paris on relations with the Obama administration, said three things that were not readily understood by all of France's allies.

First, that Europe had to have "our own doctrine on Iran"; that NATO must be redefined in April "so that we know what organization we're entering"; and that a Europeans-only military operational headquarters in Brussels "had been agreed to in principle."

Here's hoping they don't join and it is the first step toward the deconstruction of NATO. FLG cannot understand for the life of him why so many people still think NATO a crucial organization when nobody, including itself, knows what it is for.

Withywindle makes the strongest arguments FLG's seen in favor of it, but he still isn't convinced that NATO shouldn't be destroyed. Forget expanding or empowering it.