The recent and untimely crisis
of the Middle East, and the
relentless outbreaks of this
and that involving Israel
really does force the question
of whether it is now time for
the U.S. to leave NATO and
possibly the U.N. altogether.

As I have said in previous
Blogs, the very concept of
NATO is ill-conceived because
it relies heavily upon the
U.S. as the key player of
wealth to police and rescue
and be arbitrator for the
relief and aid packages which,
in theory, are supposed to
lure, entice, persuade, or
otherwise fix by negotiations
the dysfunctions of world
mishaps.

This is fine, well, and good
from a pair of Utopian eyeglasses,
but the reality check is,
whenever the financial boat
is rocked by too many riders,
or is paddling in too many
different directions, and the
pot of taxpayer gold is stretched
to its limits, then this
theory from La-La-Land starts
to collapse and the roadmap
to U.S. ruins really does
come to bear.

Just how many "things" are
we going to allow ourselves to
be sucked into before the
White House says "Enough already!!"
and either revises NATO to limit
the U.S. role and burdens, or
to leave NATO outright as a member?

With Iraq going to hell in a
handbasket, and Afghanistan popping
up from time to time, and North
Korea floating missiles past our
noses, and Hezbollah yanking
everybody's chain, at what point
does the U.S. taxpayer cut a break
and get a voice in whether we should
have to continue pandering to
all the Obsessive Compulsive
Disorders of the world?

Perhaps it is now for the
U.S. to turn its big budget
relief guns back to our
very own people as a priority
and let someone else worry
about the NATO 3-ring circus
in the East until we can
take care of our own.

This country has put out the
false charade of Johnny WarBucks
way, way, way too long in the
foreign lands afar and it only
stands to reason that to save
our land first should now become
the new course of correction.
Staying the course into a money
pit with no clear ability to
steer into the ends that we
were originally hoping for does
seem to be increasingly a failed
dream of the past.

This is not to say that the
cause of Iraq and the other
international pursuits were
not valid -- for sure at the
beginning they all were.
But getting real, just how
many directions can we be
pulled in over ethnicity
obsessions, religion obsessions,
and type of government obsessions
without it draining our own
resources and tax base completely
dry?

NATO and the U.N. have both
outlived themselves in usefulness
and for the U.S. to continue
as the Superman of nations
is not exactly a pursuit
in the best interests of our
taxpaying citizens.

Just ask New Orleans.