On 28/11/2006, at 6:29 PM, Richard Baker wrote:
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
Yep. I note ISAF still has troops from 34 countries.
Charlie
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