Hey, NATO, how about a little more help?
This is why the idea of NATO sending troops to Sudan is unrealistic:
NATO won't agree to an increased deployment of only 2,000 to 2,500 troops to Afghanistan, where fighting is increasing.
Afghanistan really and truly has been the place where we have fought terrorists so we would not have to fight them here. Osama bin Laden gave the order to launch the 9/11 attacks from Afghanistan, where al-Qaida maintained training bases under the protection of the Taliban regime. Now, nearly five years after the invasion of Afghanistan, Taliban and al-Qaida forces -- largely integrated, according to some analysts -- are resurging. It is in the national security interest of every NATO member to crush them in Afghanistan, but few of them can muster the will to do it.
Truth to tell, NATO should send a strong military force to Iraq, too. It doesn't matter if most NATO counties didn't approve of the invasion in the first place. They're needed to help stop sectarian murders, insurgent violence and terrorism that threaten to trigger a full-scale civil war, and to protect a legitimate, elected government.
Yes, they can say the Americans and Brits got themselves into this mess and should get themselves out. But that doesn't stop the daily carnage.
Let's not even think of deploying NATO troops to another hornet's nest like Sudan until NATO helps get a handle on Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Doug,
Yes, those countries can say that America and Britain got themselves into it, and they need to get themselves out of it, but all they are doing is letting us fight their battles for them. Reference your more recent strand about Algerian terrorists tsrgeting France. Who are they going to get to help them when they need it? France hasn't helped us or the Brits fight the weart on terror for many years. They along with some other countries have made good profits off of them. The problem with living in the middle of the road is that some day a Mack truck will come down astrid the center line, and BOOM.... As the song goes, "Who you gonna call"?
Posted on September 15, 2006 2:55 PM
Yeah, whom do the French always call?
Posted on September 15, 2006 3:01 PM