Oh. My. God. This administration is tainted with INSANITY
US sees coalitions of the willing as best ally
By Guy Dinmore in Washington
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Building on its experience in Iraq, the Bush administration says it wants to be able to form “coalitions of the willing” more efficiently for dealing with future conflicts rather than turning to existing but unreliable institutional alliances such as Nato.
“We ‘ad hoc’ our way through coalitions of the willing. That’s the future,” a senior State Department official said in a briefing this week that reflected Washington’s search for alternatives to the post-second world war global architecture in the new era of its “war on terror”.
Acknowledging that the coalition in Iraq had required the US to “scramble around capitals”, he said the Bush administration sought ways of what he called regularising processes and standardising operating procedures and the generation of force requirements.
He did not elaborate and would not say whether such planning was being made with Iran in mind. “We are focused on the enduring dynamics of coalition warfare,” the official, who asked not to be named, told reporters late on Tuesday.
Nato would remain a “bedrock alliance, a model and framework”, the official said, but he questioned its reliability. He sharply criticised one European government for what he called undermining the alliance by “opting out” of Nato’s expansion into possible combat operations in southern Afghanistan.
“Nato has got to look in the mirror as an alliance,” he said, asking whether it remained an alliance of “one for all and all for one”.
He declined to name the government but observers said he was clearly referring to the Netherlands, which also pulled out its troops from Iraq last year.
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By Guy Dinmore in Washington
Link Here
Building on its experience in Iraq, the Bush administration says it wants to be able to form “coalitions of the willing” more efficiently for dealing with future conflicts rather than turning to existing but unreliable institutional alliances such as Nato.
“We ‘ad hoc’ our way through coalitions of the willing. That’s the future,” a senior State Department official said in a briefing this week that reflected Washington’s search for alternatives to the post-second world war global architecture in the new era of its “war on terror”.
Acknowledging that the coalition in Iraq had required the US to “scramble around capitals”, he said the Bush administration sought ways of what he called regularising processes and standardising operating procedures and the generation of force requirements.
He did not elaborate and would not say whether such planning was being made with Iran in mind. “We are focused on the enduring dynamics of coalition warfare,” the official, who asked not to be named, told reporters late on Tuesday.
Nato would remain a “bedrock alliance, a model and framework”, the official said, but he questioned its reliability. He sharply criticised one European government for what he called undermining the alliance by “opting out” of Nato’s expansion into possible combat operations in southern Afghanistan.
“Nato has got to look in the mirror as an alliance,” he said, asking whether it remained an alliance of “one for all and all for one”.
He declined to name the government but observers said he was clearly referring to the Netherlands, which also pulled out its troops from Iraq last year.
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