Afghan War: NATO Builds History's First Global Army

[Orwellian_Ghost]

Stop NATO
August 9, 2009


Afghan War: NATO Builds History's First Global Army
Rick Rozoff


Two months before the eighth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and
the beginning of NATO's first-ever ground war the world is witness to a 21st
Century armed conflict without end waged by the largest military coalition in
history.

With recent announcements that troops from such diverse nations as Colombia,
Mongolia, Armenia, Japan, South Korea, Ukraine and Montenegro are to or may join
those of some 45 other countries serving under the command of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), there
will soon be military personnel from fifty nations on five continents and in the
Middle East serving under a unified command structure.

Never before have soldiers from so many states served in the same war theater,
much less the same country.

By way of comparison, there were twenty six (higher, and looser, estimates go as
high as 34) national contingents in the so-called coalition of the willing in
Iraq as of 2006. In the interim between now and then troops from all
contributing nations but the United States and Great Britain have been withdrawn
and in most cases redeployed to Afghanistan.

In 1999 NATO's fiftieth anniversary summit in Washington, D.C. welcomed the
first expansion of the world's only military bloc in the post-Cold War era,
absorbing former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, in
the course of conducting NATO's first war, the relentless 78-day bombardment of
Yugoslavia, Operation Allied Force.

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[tocqueville]

1. Good, we are ready to kick some ass...

or do you rather surrender to Talibans ?

[arcadian]

2. Heee- yuuuh

Good one, Cleetus, I say kill all them mother fuckers and let Gawd sort them out.

[Orwellian_Ghost]

3. Wow

That's pretty crazy.

I don't suppose you saw the poll just released where the Pakistani people viewed the US as the most dangerous element in their country.

Geez I didn't realize we had been invaded by the Taliban but I do know of many religious fundamentalists here in The Homeland that say pretty much exactly what you just said.

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Follow me to the plains of Megiddo." - Captain Crusader