what s your take? so you have to look at the pattern that president trump has established. he does this every single time, where he creates a crisis. he has been doing almost nothing but undermining nato since he was a candidate talking about it being irrelevant, obsolete, complaining about the overreliance on the united states. how the u.s. is paying too much of the nato bills. and then after having frightened a lot of nato members. i ve spent the last several weeks going to countries, nato members, nonnato members, right on russia s borders. there s a palpable fear that the basic tenant of the nato alliance that is an attack on one is an attack on all is really now something that is not certain. and they re worried about that. and then you have president trump coming out and saying that after his meeting through the force of his personal charisma, everything is better, and that nato has been is stronger now than ever and people are
nato operation, nonnato members participating. does it make sense to do what they are doing in afghanistan in libya? i think it can be looked at. but one of the challenges here is that i haven t seen the discussion of ground forces nato ground force there is as we have in afghanistan. they don t want to send the united states the president says no u.s. ground troop wills go in. so i think you need to understand as you come up with the command and control arrangement that you will not have ground forces involved. at least not initially. so i think the afghan model could be looked at. i think the bosnian model can be looked as as well on how that was handled, but you have to get agreement on the mission and on who s in charge. that has to come first. as far as the mission is concerned what s confusing to a lot of us from the beginning is that this united nations