Dana Rohrabacher: “Let me say that 20 years ago when we talked about NATO I was one of NATO's biggest boosters. As a speech writer for…”

“Let me say that 20 years ago when we talked about NATO I was one of NATO's biggest boosters. As a speech writer for Ronald Reagan during the height of the Cold War, I worked to strengthen NATO and worked diligently to see that NATO would remain what it was supposed to be; and it was designed specifically to deter a land attack by the Soviet Union on Western Europe. NATO succeeded brilliantly. It helped stave off that attack until the Soviet Union collapsed in the weight of communism's vile contradictions as well as its own evil. But the Cold War is over. It is time for us to take a fundamental look at what our post-Cold War strategy will be and what is in the best interests of the United States now that the Cold War is over.”