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...military doctrine, equipment, even a shared language in this disparate "coalition of the willing" won't be possible. The numbers are a drop in the bucket compared to the 150,000 troops already deployed by the Americans, and don't pack the wallop of the 10,500 British troops. NATO is organizing the headquarters and communications. The Americans will provide airlift, sealift, training and equipment to many of the troops, and cold cash to make the whole thing work. And the folks back home in many contributing countries are actively hostile. So what's the point...
...matter of national prestige. "It's giving our armed forces a new esprit de corps," says a Defense Ministry official. "People realize it's a big challenge and a big opportunity for us to show we can handle a responsibility that hasn't been offered to many other, stronger NATO nations. We are moving into a closer circle of allies, whom the U.S. really trusts as military partners." Slovakia, sending 85 experts at disposing of mines and weapons, is also expecting a prestige boost. "We want to have credibility," asserts Milan Vanga, a Defense Ministry spokesman. But credibility that...
...proposes a ?trusteeship for Palestine? - Israel would withdraw from the occupied territories, which would be administered by an international body that could provide the troops to protect the sovereignty of both sides and could oversee the democratization of Palestinian political institutions. Kosovo might provide something of a precedent, with NATO troops guaranteeing security and the UN running the political administration for an interim period likely to last at least a decade. Of course such plans also have plenty of flaws, but they do point to the emerging reality that whatever succeeds the ?roadmap? is likely...
...interesting that Bush said we were [overstretched] during the [2000 election] campaign and now we have many more troops abroad than before. Of course, he was against "nation building" back then too. I think that we will need even more troops abroad if we keep insulting the U.N. and NATO nations. Being unilateralist is bad for foreign policy and for our economy. Maybe the American people should consider the intelligence of the candidate they vote for next time. Voting for president is not like selecting a prom king. Tamara Johnson Wales, Wisc...
...government forces. The authority of U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai doesn't extend much beyond the capital; the countryside is in the hands of warlords, opium farmers and jihadis. Some 10,000 U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan to hunt al-Qaeda and its allies, and some 5,000 NATO troops staff International Security Assistance based in the capital. That leaves the Taliban and its allies to pursue the same strategy used by their forebears against the Soviets - take control of the countryside, and make it ungovernable from Kabul. Reconstruction efforts are slow and troubled, investors are staying away...