should to be the leader of hat world order and it is in your self-interest to make sure world that ntain is rules based, that is cutrade freely all over the world. reasons, i think -- it's hard to be the it is in yourmen, interest to do if. host: "the will to lead: america's indispensable role in the global fight for freedom" ame out in september of 2016, the author is with us, former danish prime minister, former nato, here eneral of for the next 20 minutes on "washington journal." is in lake dallas, texas, a democrat. ray, good morning. caller: good morning. i love c-span. thank you so much. hello, anders, thank you for extraordinary service. i have a question and i'm going e oversimplify this, you can dissect it. s nato is currently structured by country, i believe, if it is still. the european nion's advantage to classify nato under the european union know, those you nations would of course join the union and therefore when cost sharing comes into european way the union as a whole can pony up opposed to hare as the united states, equally, equally, and leave it to the european union t