Gautam wrote:
<<Jeroen:
What I said was that we should not send our soldiers to Afghanistan to fight your war.
I have no problem with our Intelligence Agencies working together to find the
terrorists and bring them to justice.
Jeroen
Me:
So, what happened in Afghanistan was just our war? The invocation of Article V, that
doesn't mean anything to you? You have, on many occasions, criticized the US for not
moving faster in Bosnia. That was clearly not
our war. Why then do you blame us for failing to send soldiers fast enough to fight
in what was very clearly someone else's war?
Gautam>>
Jeroen,
I would like to point out that according to what you have now said you believe that
The Netherlands should not fulfill their NATO treaty obligations.
By your own admission: ("What I said was that we should not send our soldiers to
Afghanistan to fight your war.") you feel that your country should not fulfill its
obligations under the treaty.
The treaty does not say "well, we'll do what we like when we feel like it." The
treaty states that an attack on one country that is a member of NATO is an attack on
all members.
By treaty terms, the Netherlands must do as much as any other member. Sending spies
instead of soldiers due to political convenience is NOT acceptable according to the
treaty.
Jon
