Quote Originally Posted by TuffStuffMcGruff View Post
It's only about defense in the last instance. It is really about helping people to relax, avoid autocracy and spend money on the things that make the world a better place. It's funny how a military alliance can do that and all anyone hears is "military".
This is not the problem I think anyone has with it. It's the fact that you propose using it ideologically to make "the west" and the "wannabe west" a united monolithic hegemony against the whole rest of the world, basically. I would be interested to hear if you would tout the virtues of an Islamic sharia bloc attempting to organize the same thing for the same spoken purposes you just gave.