Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   One potentially positive aspect of the chaos Date:   9/21/2021 12:50:13 PM

I thought Trump was right about NATO, that they needed to shoulder more of the burden of the cost.  And France would not hesitate to screw us over if there was a defense deal to be had.  You can be sure there will be a "give me" to France to smooth this over.  But I think that the Europeans have a right to be annoyed when they were participating in Afghanistan and Biden just arbitarily picked a date and left all of them off balance.  The truth is that we do need them, but it should be more of an equal alliance.