"We're not breaking up the alliance," Colin Powell told politicians Feb. 11 in Washington. "The alliance is breaking itself up because it will not meet its responsibilities."Unprecedented words, to say the least. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the longest-serving alliance in modern history, is at risk of being ripped apart from within. The fabric of the alliance is slowly tearing at a seam connecting Anglo-American and Franco-Germanic interests. It was bound to happen. In the post-Cold War world, where the primary threat to state security is terrorism - elusive, transient, often il...
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