Despite President Obama’s attempts to paint the daunting effort ahead for his Overseas Contingency Operation at the 60th anniversary meeting of NATO earlier this week, it seems that old Europe simply isn’t buying it.
The 5,000 additional forces NATO members did manage to pledge will be divided among 3,000 short-term deployment troops, and 1,500 – 2,000 members of the French Surrender Brigade. I’m sorry, that was a knee-jerk reaction – 1,500 – 2,000 training and technical personnel for the Afghanistan police and military force.
I just hope Obama's groveling before the feet of Europe will have a payoff at some point.
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