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...against Iraq. But it could take a long time to get more. "The reality is we have different priorities, different capabilities and different responsibilities," says Jeffrey Gedmin, director of the Aspen Institute in Berlin, an American-backed think tank. "To pretend that it's still this cosy cold war NATO where we always agree - those days are gone...
...army of his own to speak of: U.S. troops are currently training the nucleus of an Afghan national army, and expect to have trained some 9,000 troops by the middle of next year. But right now security even in the capital itself relies on the 4,400 mostly NATO troops deployed in Kabul in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), and the 8,000 U.S. troops deployed primarily to hunt down remnants of al-Qaeda and the Taliban and to conduct some rudimentary reconstruction...
...other emergency needs, although the $2 billion promised at a new donor's conference in March has been earmarked by Karzai's government for rebuilding infrastructure and paying the salaries of those expected to run and secure it. Another hint of brightness on the horizon is the announcement by NATO last week that the alliance would take over leadership of ISAF - it remains unclear, though, whether NATO is willing to more than quadruple ISAF's troop strength in order to extend the stabilization mission beyond the capital...
Power says she could not reconcile the ubiquity of Holocaust remembrance with the NATO warplanes she watched pass over slaughter in the former Yugoslavia. While Bostonians were smiling and going about their day, Muslims were being slaughtered—and no one with the power to stop it was doing anything...
...don’t think it’s in that great a danger even now despite people like Kagan,” Kydd said. “NATO has weathered a lot of crises in one form or another...