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How NATO weakens the West

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Krauss believes that NATO is a one-sided partnership and the European dependence on American protection and weapons is "absurd." It is also outrageously expensive for the US since he says NATO accounts for from 42 percent to 58 percent of the USA's defense budget.

Attacking the Japanese posture, he writes,"A country of Japan's wealth surely should play a more substantial role in securing the region in which it is located."

Phased removal of US troops and subsidies, especially from Western Europe, would necessarily increase European (and Asian) efforts in their own defense.

It's an interesting argument. Opponents might point out that NATO's proactive stance in world crises seems to have had at least a mild deterrant effect since its inception and that although we have gone into countries with other nations to stabilize political situations, we have not had to do it alone.

Read this one and consider his points. Is he too isolationist to be relevant today? The world has changed since he wrote this in the mid-1980s. Or, maybe he's right.