Charlie said:
Much of the world simply isn't able to provide soldiers as most 1st world countries have been cutting back to basically a defence force, and there have been enough "friendly fire" incidents in joint task forces in the past to make military forces wary of combining troops. And the US didn't need extra troops. Providing soldiers is not the only way to support an ally (and Britain did provide soldiers anyway).
Many other countries provided soldiers, ships and aircraft, including a substantial contingent from the constantly maligned France:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 2001_war_in_Afghanistan#Nature_of_the_coalition
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