Today's NATO is ill-conceived. We are committed to defending the Baltic States, Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria from Russian aggression. The previous occupation of these nations by the Soviet Union during the Cold War weakened it financially and militarily. Why should we seek to prevent Russia from repeating that blunder? Russia blows billions and billions just to rule Chechnya. We are also absurdly committed to defending Slovenia, Albania, Greece, and Croatia which have no relevance to our self-defense. Todays NATO is another Bush blunder.