Posted by
Dawnsblood on Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:53:49 PM
The commander in Afganistan has requested 2-2.5k troops to reinforce the Nato mission in Afganistan and let just say our Nato allies are being
coy. Poland is willing to step into the breach with 1,000 troops early next year, but the mighty EU can only find 14700 now and early next year up the count to 15700? Color me unimpressed.
Update: Mr Kurtz in the Corner
opens both barrels.
Again, this is Afghanistan, where we’ve been happily multilateral, not Iraq. If NATO cannot fight here, what good is it? Given a chance to help us, in circumstances where we are in agreement, our European allies have simply failed. Can the Europeans seriously hope to bargain Iran into giving up its nuclear weapons when it can’t collectively scrounge up 2,500 troops, all of whom were supposed to have been committed more than a year ago? Bin Laden is laughing. Ahmadinajad is doubled over. And NATO is just plain over.