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Published: 04 April, 2009, 00:37

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NATO was the major alliance left standing, while the Warsaw pact disintegrated and some of America’s other alliances also collapsed, said Stanley Kober, research fellow at the Washington-based CATO Institute.

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It my belief that the US always stood alone in NATO, ally or not. It is my hope that this view is changing for the better and that Obama can convince his nation that the US is only a part of NATO. It is appearing to be so as Obama seems intent to accept and change this view.

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