The American Conservative: NATO’s Bridge to Nowhere

If anything positive can be said to have resulted from this week’s NATO summit in Washington, it is that it occasioned a series of thoughtful critiques from the few remaining citadels of dissent within the U.S. foreign policy community.

The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft published a symposium, “to reflect on the past and future of the alliance.” The scholar and author Anatol Lieven who convened the symposium writes,

NATO likes to describe itself as “the most successful alliance in history”…. What is too often forgotten, however, is that war was prevented not just by NATO solidarity, but also by NATO caution. Successive U.S. administrations—fully backed by their European allies—rejected calls for aggressive policies aimed at “rolling back” Soviet power in Eastern Europe. …

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