Anybody believe this is legit? I may become independently wealthy. My odds are waaay better.
French and German troops who have been kept away from the fiercest fighting in Afghanistan could be used as emergency reinforcements for British, American and Canadian soldiers bearing the brunt of the war against the Taliban.
They just love to get all dressed up.
A Nato summit this week in Riga, the capital of Latvia, is expected to agree greater flexibility for commanders to call on coalition allies for frontline support.
Uh huh. More wishful thingking - that always works.
British officers have described how military police and engineers have had to fend off Taliban attacks while well trained coalition troops remain far away in Kabul and the relatively peaceful north.
Bingo. Playing bingo.
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, NatoÂ’s secretary-general, is urging all nations to lift the restrictions imposed on where their troops can be stationed. There has been a sharp disparity within Nato between European allies that have sought to minimise their casualties and concentrate on reconstruction, and Britain, Canada and the United States, which are committed to defeating the Taliban.
That is the point.
The Americans said: “We want all forces to be available to commanders on the ground. We can’t have forces who don’t go to certain places and do certain things.”
The bobblehead version of military operations.
Germany, in particular, has come under criticism over Chancellor Angela MerkelÂ’s insistence that German troops should remain in the north, although her government will now permit units to be sent for emergency short-term missions elsewhere in the country.
To do what? Pick up cigarette butts?
French troops are also likely to show more flexibility. An official pledged that if there were real danger they would help Nato allies in the south.
Oh yeah, I wanna depend on them. Think PakiWaki armor, Mogadishu. Yewbetcha. |
