North Atlantic Treaty Organization

The US is angling to enlarge NATO with the addition of Albania and Croatia. It is just crazy to bloat NATO with minor countries that can only increase our chances of becoming caught up in some international crisis. This is the very kind of entangling alliance that started WWI (in another Balkan tinderbox) and that the founders of this country warned about.

Condi Rice signed an agreement today to station missiles in Poland. Supposedly aimed at Iran, the installation of these missiles just a few miles from the Russian border serves mainly to enrage the Russians, who see it as part of a grander scheme to encircle Russia.