Gates blasts NATO, questions future of alliance

America's military association with Europe — the cornerstone of U.S. security rule for six decades — faces a "dim, if not dismal" future, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday in a rounded valedictory address.

In his final policy talking as Pentagon chief, Gates questioned the viability of NATO, saying its members' penny-pinching and lack of political will might hasten the end of U.S. support. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 as a U.S.-led bulwark alongside Soviet aggression, but in the post-Cold War era it has struggle to find a purpose.

"Future U.S. political leaders - those for whom the Cold War was not the formative knowledge that it was for me - may not consider the return on America's asset in NATO worth the cost," he told a European think tank on the last day of an 11-day overseas journey.

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Santorum in White House race; 'In it to win'

SOMERSET, Pa. – Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, just the once the No. 3 Republican in Senate leadership ranks, said Monday he's looking for the GOP nomination for president to protect American freedoms below warning from President Barack Obama.

A blunt-talking favorite between party social conservatives, Santorum said Obama has work to undermine Americans' freedoms and pushed throughout a national health care arrangement that reduces individual choice. He accused Obama of spend billions of dollars that add to future generations' debts and said the president worries the nation's potential.

"I'm ready to lead. I'm ready to do what has to be done for the next generation, with the bravery to fight for freedom, with the bravery to clash for America," Santorum said, speaking the sun-splashed steps of a district courthouse in western Pennsylvania. "That's why I'm announcing today that I'm in succession for president of the United States of America."

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Strauss-Kahn pleads not guilty to sexual assault charges

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn pleaded not responsible on Monday to charges he sexually assaulted a New York hotel maid in a case that price him his job and a opportunity at the French presidency.

Wearing a dark suit, Strauss-Kahn arrived at the courthouse with his wife, French television journalist Anne Sinclair, walking beside him, arm-in-arm. They were flanked by two private security guards hired to prevent him from skipping bail.

The couples walk past a throng of media and a large crowd of hotel workers there in solidarity with the female who said Strauss-Kahn attacked her. "Shame on you," they chanted. Strauss-Kahn, 62, faces up to 25 years in prison if convict on charges as well as attempt rape, sex abuse, a criminal sex act, unlawful custody and forcible touching.

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