along without one boring mr arty lisbon portugal well let's stay with the nato summit and talk to thomas clough from the think tank european council on foreign relief thomas after the geo political changes of the last twenty years there's a debate over whether regional military organization like nato should exist at all now how viable is nato today. well another crisis is sort of consubstantial to nato has existed certainly since the fall of the burden of war but in fact there was much question about what nature was all about and how it would operate even even before the war so nato isn't in a sense in an identity crisis more often than not i still think it has a road to play it's not a bad idea to have a large group of countries representing more than half the military spending in the world in an organization in an alliance working together discussing talking corporation called an aging that's not a bad thing in itself how this allies should be used and against whom if at all is of course a matter that's open and going to be redefined in the new nato strategy terrorism is an obvious obvious ta