We'll uphold our treaty obligations, including the mutual defense agreement that is NATO.
The NATO treaty is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them.
No amount of arms and armies can help stabilize those governments which are unable or unwilling to achieve social and economic reform and development. Military pacts cannot help nations whose social injustice and economic chaos invite insurgency and penetration and subversion.
Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security.
I'm all in favor of NATO.
The only way that American troops could have stayed in Iraq is to get an agreement from the then-Iraqi government that would have protected our troops, and the Iraqi government would not give that.
The agreement to place the binational planning group at our new Northern Command was also signed in December.
NATO is going to be just fine.
