"NATO expects help to fund Afghan Army" by Robert Burns and Slobodan Lekic | Associated Press, February 04, 2012
BRUSSELS - NATO’s top official said yesterday that the alliance expects regional powers to contribute to a multibillion dollar fund to finance the Afghan Army and police after they assume full responsibility for the war in 2014.
So the WAR is NOT ENDING anytime soon, is it?
Since Afghanistan - one of the world’s poorest nations - cannot foot the estimated $6 billion annual bill, NATO nations will have to pay the bulk of it.
Up until now YOU have been PICKING UP THE TAB, Americans!!!
But austerity measures and budgetary cuts caused by the financial crisis in the United States and Europe are making it difficult to raise the money within the alliance.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he was appealing to the entire international community to help finance the force.
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!
Right, THOSE NATIONS are going to FUND NATO's interests in the region!
Yeah, let's get China and Russia to pay for the upcoming NATO assault on Syria!
Seriously, are these globe-kicking bastards OUT OF THEIR FUCKING MINDS?!!!!!
“So my call on the international community also includes countries in the region,’’ he said....
Stop it, stop it, my stomach is hurting!
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Btw, HOW CLOSE is the ATLANTIC OCEAN to Afghanistan?!?!
And NOTHING is MORE DISTASTEFUL than a WAR MACHINE crying POVERTY!!!!
"Austerity weakens NATO military capabilities" January 31, 2012|By Craig Whitlock
WASHINGTON - NATO allies are confronting a sustained weakening of the military alliance as ailing economies are forcing nearly all members, including the United States, to accelerate cuts to their defense budgets at the same time.
What, LIBYA BREAK 'EM?
Here is an EASY ANSWER to the PROBLEM: DISBAND!
The Pentagon’s recent decision to eliminate two of the Army’s four brigades in Europe is the latest blow to NATO’s military capabilities. It extends a year of grim announcements from members of the alliance that they can no longer afford their security commitments and that a long period of austerity is in the offing....
Meanwhile, the ATTACK on IRAN LOOMS LARGE!
Espen Barth Eide, Norway’s defense minister, said resentment and opposition to the US-led occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan has reduced popular backing for NATO among many Western European countries.
That is assuming there ever was backing for their mass-murdering exercises based on lies.
And it is NOT JUST RESENTMENT, you pos media puke, it is DOWNRIGHT HATRED at this point!
Yeah, I SOMEHOW LOST my SENSE of HUMOR again.
Happens EVERY TIME I sit down and read a Globe!
“NATO was identified simply as the organization that takes away our sons and daughters and sends them to faraway places to do nation-building in the desert,’’ he said.
As part of a new military strategy released this month, the Obama administration said it would devote greater attention and resources to Asia while maintaining a robust presence in the Middle East.
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That has fed concern among European allies that they will get short shrift over the long term and lose their influence in Washington....
As if they had any. Everyone with a brain and who is paying attention knows that Washington and Europe serve Israel first. It is so damn obvious it is painful.
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Related: Karzai alleges NATO airstrike kills 8 children
NATO regrets airstrike that killed 8 young Afghans
Not f***ing funny at all!
Yeah, I think the WORLD can get along JUST FINE without NATO!
