Bush to the Europe – Screw You

The Bush neocon cabal wants to be able to form coalitions more efficiently for dealing with future conflicts rather than turning to existing but unreliable institutional alliances such as NATO.

While acknowledging the US had to “scramble around capitals,” the wave of the future is to “ ad hoc our way through coalitions of the willing,” said a senior State Department official this week as Washington searches for alternatives to the post-second world war global architecture in the new era of its war on terror. “We are focused on the enduring dynamics of coalition warfare," the official said, while refusing to say whether such planning was being made with Iran in mind.

So we will construct alliances with smaller countries we can either bully or bribe, forsake our more powerful and influential allies, and repeat the Iraq coalition fiasco over and over and over again.

Great plan.

Posted on The Human Stain