Lucky for Obama it's only NATO and not the UN, he might be obliged to listen to them. Funny that every one else has made up their mind on Afghanistan one way or the other. There only seems to be one guy in the whole world still trying to figure out what he's going to do.
In fairness to Obama, he did open up another front in the war on terror ... against Fox News. We can't expect him to take every enemy of America on at the same time.
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) -- Afghanistan is the most complex challenge that NATO has ever undertaken, but the alliance must remain engaged there to prevent the country turning back into an al-Qaida training ground, the organization's top official said Thursday.
Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said some critics are starting to say that the cost of engagement in the 8-year-old war is too high, but he countered that "the cost of inaction would be far higher."
"Leaving Afghanistan behind would once again turn the country into a training ground for al-Qaida. The pressure on nuclear-armed Pakistan would be tremendous. Instability would spread throughout central Asia and it would only be a matter of time until we here in Europe would feel the consequences of all of this," Fogh Rasmussen said in a speech at a security conference in Bratislava ahead of a meeting of NATO defense ministers.
...they were addressed by the Under-Secretary for the Interior, who congratulated them on their appearance, said he understood their problems and at the end of his speech urged them all to “endeavour to persevere”.
The chiefs then went away to think about what he said – “endeavour to persevere” – and after they had thought about it for a while, they declared war on the USA.
Posted by: mojo | Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 12:27 PM