Eastern Europe and the Baltic states are free. Presumably, if NATO loses credibility, it will limit the alliance's ability to pull us into future abysses. The armed forces of the United States aren't the legions of the Roman Empire. The soldiers of a republic shouldn't be walking endless foreign battlements in a deranged and futile attempt to enforce a pax Americana. It takes a robust Republican to throw NATO into the trashcan.
Liberals never talk like that.
For them, talking dirty about NATO is like attending a baptism and spitting in the font. Sanders owes his political career to rage against the Vietnam war among radicals, many of whom moved into the state in the early 1970s. Sanders linked his political ambitions to this effort to organize a third force, the Progressive Alliance. He became mayor of Burlington and, later , congressman. At least five years ago it was apparent that the only movement B. Sanders was interested in was that of liberal money into his political campaign trough.