Authored by Francis P. Sempa via RealClear Wire,

Jessica Berlin, a policy analyst writing in the Center for European Policy Analysis' online journal, has proposed a NATO without limits--an expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to all democratic nations.

"The 21st-century threat landscape," she contends, "calls for a global alliance capable of mutual defense."

"NATO must open its doors," she writes, "to new members beyond Europe and North America.

Her proposal is breathtaking in scope: an attack on any democracy is an attack on all democracies. It is a recipe for endless wars on all continents and a reckless extension of America's nuclear guarantee to all the world's democracies. It turns John Quincy Adams' prudent counsel on its head: America goes abroad in search of monsters to destroy and is the champion and vindicator of the freedom and independence of all democracies.