"Bob Gates tells the all too bitter truth about NATO” (see below). Well, to Bob Gates I say: welcome to the real world; better late than never; and don’t let the door hit ya on the way out.

NATO is risking military irrelevance? By spending so little on defense that it can't defeat a two-bit dictator like Gadhafi?!

Memo to Bob Gates: Defeating a two-bit dictator doesn’t require more spending on defense; it requires less hesitation in using what you’ve already got. And it's not NATO that has much to lose here, but the United States of America.

President Obama’s unhealthy need to blend in and make America one of many, is what’s making us irrelevant (militarily and otherwise). And ceding control of America’s national security to international coalitions is what’s putting us at risk.

Wanna know what a supposedly relevant international coalition looks like? Take a look at the one we've got wasting valuable real estate in NY, i.e., the third-world hornets nest known as the U.N.

Being a world leader means leading, not being a horse’s ass as that ridiculous doctrine of "leading from behind" would have us be.