Germans, French to Limit Intel-Sharing with US

Merkel and Hollande are ready to show the US their middle finger over allegations of spying on their conversations:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/525d21b0-3d0c-11e3-a8c4-00144feab7de.html#axzz2iiJP1Czt

The United States should immediately move to renegotiate its participation in NATO, in response to the latest German-initiated moves. There's no need for the US to cater to Europeans through participation in NATO, which has always been geared more towards European security than America's. Let the Europeans take care of their own security, instead of American taxpayers having to underwrite it. The days when America could afford Marshall Plans and other largesse to foreign countries are long gone, and the US is even winding down its presence on the Korean peninsula. Americans should send a strong signal by rolling up their participation in NATO. Let the Europeans be tough-talkers on their own dime/deutschemark.

The US needs a Look East policy.

The Atlanticists will of course desperately rush to shore up trans-Atlantic ties by trying to paper over the latest European umbrage, and will try to argue that NSA spying poses a big threat to American civil liberties, in order to sugarcoat and support the European stance. But all the jihadism that the US is trying to protect itself against was created in the name of protecting Europe from the big, bad Russkies in the first place. Given that the Atlanticists created this problem, they're hardly credible in trying to attack the response to it, which is increased intelligence activity.