Five Principles That Should Guide U.S. Policy Toward NATO | The Heritage Foundation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Today, the U.S. commitment to NATO is not about protecting Europeans from the threat of Soviet Communism; it is about ensuring America's strategic reach in Eurasia, Africa, and the Middle East.
48% : NATO has done more to stabilize and defend democracy in Western Europe, and expand it to Eastern Europe after the Cold War, than any other organization, including the European Union.
40% : The European Union can never be a serious defense actor, because it has six neutral member states,[2] and it excludes two important NATO defense partners, Norway and Turkey, from its defense and security decision-making process.
36% : With declining defense spending across Europe and the lack of political will to use military force, coupled with the Obama Administration's "pivot" to Asia and support for EU defense integration, there is a serious risk that NATO will become irrelevant.

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