• refuse to appropriate funds for any "out-of-area" NATO military missions;
• pass a joint resolution opposing any further expansion of the alliance beyond the admission of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic approved by the Senate in 1998;
• pass a joint resolution endorsing the new European Security and Defense Policy;
• pass legislation requiring the withdrawal of all U.S. forces stationed in Europe by 2005; and
• conduct a comprehensive debate about whether continued U.S. membership in NATO serves American interests—especially in light of the alliance’s change of focus from territorial defense to murky peacekeeping and humanitarian intervention missions.

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• NATO Stops Here 8/12/2008
• Regime Change Rationales 7/26/2008
• Pull the Plug on the War State 7/26/2008
• NATO's Anti-Russian Propaganda 7/1/2008
• A New Cold War? 6/19/2008
• How to Crush Any Hope for Reform in Russia 5/8/2008
• I Was Right to Oppose Intervention in Kosovo 4/21/2008
• The House in the Middle of the Road 4/12/2008
• Three Faces of Infantilism: NATO's Bucharest Summit 4/4/2008
• The Babysitter's Club 4/4/2008
• NATO Marches Eastward 4/2/2008
• 'What Should NATO Do?' 3/25/2008
• NATO's West Bank Nightmare 2/21/2008
• More Violence Seems Likely in Pakistan 2/17/2008
• Bush Calls on France for Help 2/12/2008
• Europeans See What America Cannot 2/11/2008
• NATO at Twilight 2/11/2008
• The War That Can Bring Neither Peace nor Freedom 2/5/2008
• Is NATO Committing Genocide in Afghanistan? 1/31/2008
• Unleash NATO 1/26/2008
• Khalilzad and the Gangs of Afghanistan 12/19/2007
• There Is an Eerie Familiarity to This 100-Year-Old Pact 9/1/2007
• Questions for Hillary Clinton 8/20/2007
• Payback for NATO Expansion 7/17/2007
• America's Baltic Time Bomb 5/24/2007
• Get Out of Europe; Avoid a New Cold War 5/11/2007
• Afghans 'Hate NATO More Than the Russians' 3/5/2007
• NATO Fighting the Wrong Battle in Afghanistan 11/3/2006
• There Is Never Going to Be a NATO Victory in Afghanistan 10/20/2006
• Like the Soviets Before, NATO Losing in Afghanistan 9/29/2006
• Drug Warriors Are Playing Into the Taliban's Hands 9/13/2006
• American Foreign Policy and the Future of NATO 3/17/2006
• US Allies Bring Little to Table in Iraq, Afghanistan 2/13/2006
• The Case for Italian 'Isolationism' 1/30/2006
• NATO Insists on Poking Russian Bear 1/25/2006

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