NATO 'Political' Accord Needs Senate Scrutiny

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The so-called "Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between NATO and the Russian Federation" was unveiled in mid-May in Moscow with much fanfare and declarations that the way now was clear for including several former Soviet-occupied states in Central Europe into the Atlantic alliance. Unfortunately, if we are not careful, this "Founding Act" could become the final act for NATO.

Consider some of the particulars of this agreement:

* As Richard Perle noted recently, the agreement reads like a Soviet document. This is, as the Communists loved to say, "no accident, comrade." After all, the principal author for the Russian side was an unreconstructed apparatchik and longtime KGB operative from the old Soviet Union …