Someone Should Really Tell Trump What NATO Is For

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Someone should brief President Donald Trump on the meaning of NATO—not just its value to America’s global presence and security ever since the alliance was formed in 1949 but also, more simply, what the treaty creating it says. He would then learn that his pique at the NATO allies for not helping him in his war against Iran—his threat to pull out of the alliance, then, a bit less extremely, to withdraw troops from those countries that refused to…