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2008-03-13 Afghanistan

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Posted by Vanc 2008-03-13 03:38|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Anyone following this fight cannot help but think that most of NATO isn't worth a damn. The US, the Canadians and the British...and that's it when it comes to fighters. Everyone else is standing back and giving little more than a pat on the back, if that much. It's time to give those Continental Euro wimps an ultimatum: get involved or get shown the door. It's long past time we stopped subsidizing these parasites.

Posted by Pancho Elmeck8414 2008-03-13 09:28|| 2008-03-13 09:28|| Front Page Top

#2 NATO has degenerated into Workfare. That's were free riders were required to perform 'public service' in order to retain their welfare benefits. So they only apply the most minimal amount of effort to maintain the level of subsistence they prefer.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-03-13 09:55|| 2008-03-13 09:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Throw those lazy and useless Germans OUT.

Withdraw all troops from Germany, and close all bases there. Pack it up and send it to eastern europe small bases, and send most of it back state-side.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-03-13 10:20|| 2008-03-13 10:20|| Front Page Top

#4 And move the hospital to England. Maybe it can become a profit center by offering off-peak services to the British public in competition against NHS.

Posted by Howard Beale 2008-03-13 11:23|| 2008-03-13 11:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Exactly Old Spook, when your enemy pulls back, you take ground. We should have advanced into eastern europe in the 90's and "interfered" a lot more than we did. We had this crazy idea that the new russia would want to be friends, but apparently they can't amount to squat without a boogeyman -i.e. us, to blame all the worlds ills on.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-03-13 13:33|| 2008-03-13 13:33|| Front Page Top

#6 NATO is finished as a defense organization. Now it is more of a social club.

Keep Canada and add the Australians to the alliance and ditch everyone else. Tell the British they will be welcomed with open arms... IF they ditch the EU. Poland, the Baltic and the Ukraine have the same offer.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-03-13 14:35|| 2008-03-13 14:35|| Front Page Top

#7 The Dutch troops are happily not playing nice in Afghanistan. Videos have been linked to here.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-03-13 19:24|| 2008-03-13 19:24|| Front Page Top

#8 And the Danes. Thank you TW, I had overlooked their contribution. At home and abroad. My apologizes to the Danes.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-03-13 20:12|| 2008-03-13 20:12|| Front Page Top

#9 NATO Disappoints - it's what they do best.

Posted by DMFD 2008-03-13 22:27|| 2008-03-13 22:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Thats why I said just dump Germany. The Norwegians, Poles, Dutch, Danes and especially the Canadians are all punching well above their weights.

The Germans, on the other hand are not only poor soldiers anymore, and poorly led, they have commanders that are politicians first and foremost, resulting in cowardice of command.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-03-13 23:16|| 2008-03-13 23:16|| Front Page Top

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