> Has US Crippled NATO?
>
> Georgia debacle may be the last straw, isolating US with Canada.
>
> By Murray Dobbin
> Published: August 26, 2008
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>
> With the end of the Cold War, many analysts and policy makers imagined
> that
> the developed world might actually move away from its irrational
> attachment
> to militarization and war. The most optimistic envisioned a huge,
> international peace dividend, shifting untold billions previously spent on
> conventional and nuclear weapons to tackling poverty and inequality around
> the world.