"Afghanistan has revealed that NATO has reached the stage where it is a corpse decomposing and somebody's going to have to perform a Frankenstein-like life-giving act by breathing some lifesaving air through those rotten lips into those putrescent lungs or the alliance will be done," Hillier wrote.
Canada's former top general, Rick Hillier, has called NATO a rotting "corpse" in his soon to be released book "A Soldier First: Bullets, Bureaucrats and the Politics of War,".
General Hillier does speak some truth. NATO was originally created to protect Western Europe from Soviet aggression. But since the fall of the Berlin Wall, NATO has been drifting from one cause to another. Some may argue that it has become nothing more then a vehicle to secure arms contracts from prospective members (ie. Georgia).
One thing is for sure, either NATO has to be revamped to face today's threats or it should move aside for another alliance that can and will.
From Reuters
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The splits inside NATO over the Afghan war have turned the alliance into a rotting corpse that will be virtually impossible to revive, says the former head of Canada's armed forces.....
General Rick Hillier also said the 28-member alliance was "dominated by jealousies and small, vicious political battles" and bemoaned its "lack of cohesion, clarity and professionalism" at the start of the Afghan mission.
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