Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Brzezinski: NATO Needs to Become Hub for Global Security

Emperor Palpatine is at it again -- this time coining an opinion piece in the New York Times. Brzezinski seems to imply that NATO is outdated and needs to reevaluate its place in the global security arena.

NATO now confronts historically unprecedented risks to global security. The paradox of our time is that the world, increasingly connected and economically interdependent, is experiencing intensifying popular unrest. Yet there is no effective global security mechanism for coping with the growing threat of chaos stemming from humanity’s recent political awakening.

Additionally complicating is the fact that the dramatic rise of China and India and the quick recovery of Japan within the last 50 years have signaled that the global center of political and economic gravity is shifting away from the North Atlantic toward Asia and the Pacific.

Source: New York Times

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