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France, Germany resist U.S. plan for bigger NATO role against Islamic State
2017-05-19
[IraqiNews] La Belle France and Germany are resisting a plan by U.S. officials for NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
to take a bigger role in the fight against Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
in Syria and Iraq, in line with calls from President Donald Trump
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Yea, but they're doing for selfish reasons of national interest - not because they want to uplift humankind.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-05-19 08:43  

#1  Why would we be confronting Russia?
They're ALSO fighting ISIS (and doing a much better job of it).
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-05-19 05:03  

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