http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-britain-belongs-in-a-new-nafta-1467932567
Why Britain Belongs in a New Nafta
After Brexit, the U.S. must help prevent Europe from slipping into nativism and protectionism.
July 7, 2016 | The Wall Street Journal
At critical moments over the past century, the United States has
acted boldly and creatively to secure Europe’s peace and prosperity.
After the fighting of two devastating wars across Europe, America’s
Marshall Plan spent $120 billion (in current dollars) over four years to
spark Western Europe’s economic recovery and political integration. In
1949 the U.S., Canada, and Western European states invented NATO as a
trans-Atlantic shield. In 1989 President George H.W. Bush moved rapidly
yet deftly to unify Germany within NATO and the European Community,
setting the cornerstones of a Europe “whole and free.”
Britain’s
vote to exit the EU now launches an uncertain and dramatic course of
negotiations and public debates that will shape the future of the
British Isles, the EU, trans-Atlantic ties and global growth. The U.S.
must have a plan. As during historical pivot points of the past, America
must shape events, not wince and dismiss the turmoil in Britain and
Europe.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-britain-belongs-in-a-new-nafta-1467932567
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