As the ''[[New York Times]]'' wrote in 1998, "Ben & Jerry's is against expanding NATO. So is [[Phyllis Schlafly]], the arch-conservative activist. ... 'It would obligate us to go to war to defend the borders in Eastern Europe,' said Mrs. Schlafly, who founded the 80,000-member Eagle Forum. 'We don't think that's an [[American]] responsibility. We see this as one [[Bosnia]] after another.'<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/21/world/bedfellows-of-every-stripe-in-nato-fray.html</ref> NATO was never intended to be "the world's policeman," nor is it an enforcement arm or extension of the [[United Nations]]. [[President Donald Trump]] was highly critical of how the United States has been saddled with the bulk of the cost throughout its history while [[Europe]] has not paid its agreed upon mandated share of defense costs. | As the ''[[New York Times]]'' wrote in 1998, "Ben & Jerry's is against expanding NATO. So is [[Phyllis Schlafly]], the arch-conservative activist. ... 'It would obligate us to go to war to defend the borders in Eastern Europe,' said Mrs. Schlafly, who founded the 80,000-member Eagle Forum. 'We don't think that's an [[American]] responsibility. We see this as one [[Bosnia]] after another.'<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/21/world/bedfellows-of-every-stripe-in-nato-fray.html</ref> NATO was never intended to be "the world's policeman," nor is it an enforcement arm or extension of the [[United Nations]]. [[President Donald Trump]] was highly critical of how the United States has been saddled with the bulk of the cost throughout its history while [[Europe]] has not paid its agreed upon mandated share of defense costs. |