After much wrangling, NATO has checked in on the idea of contributing to the now-free nation of Iraq.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has agreed to create a military training academy in Iraq, expanding the alliance’s small presence in the country after two years of feuding over the US-led war.
Ambassadors at NATO’s headquarters in Brussels reached the accord after resolving questions raised last week by France and Belgium over the mission’s financing and its relationship to the US-led multinational force.
“Today NATO ambassadors agreed on the political directions to the military to enhance NATO assistance to the Government of Iraq in the training of its security forces,” NATO spokesman James Appathurai told reporters.
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France and others that opposed the war fear it could be tantamount to inserting NATO into the Iraqi battlefield through a back door.
The alliance currently has a 40-strong operation performing training services in Iraq and the new accord is seen as expanding its presence to some 300.
France, Germany and other opponents of the US-led war have said they will not have a presence in the country themselves.
Yeah, NATO in da house.
Except France, Germany, Belgium and Spain. Those four bastard countries are too scared to even involve themselves in freakin’ training a country to support itself.
I’m tired of the worthlessness that is the UN. I’m quickly growing tired of the anachronism that is NATO (as it is currently structured). Perhaps it’s time we move forward and negotiate a new alliance. I’ll have to give thought to membership and acronym, but it would certainly exclude countries with no sack at all, specifically France. Hell, the cowards militarily withdrew from NATO decades ago, hoping we’d hold back the Red horde while they swept the streets of Paris for Russians on parade.
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NATO has lost its use to the US. We could not even bribe Turkey enough to use bases we had agreements with, etc. The real answer is the EU and that is who is building an army. For now the army is a joke, this so that they can rely on other alliances to do ‘the dirty work.’ It will stay a joke until they decide to lead. NATO really has no practical usefullness to the US. It does not honor agreements. The former Soviet countries are forming alliances and Russia just joined. The terrorist attack probably had something to do with dividing the EU before Russia and other countries join. This is an excellent time to move away from future EU countries that have decided on that military and not NATO. We probably won’t help until they act responsibly and stop joking around about an EU army that is an excuse to rely on NATO countries, rather than taking responsiblity themselves.
Iraq s an opportunity to find out who in NATO is still viable. Most countreis are not and still wanted contracts, even though they did their best to get coalition troops in trouble. Yes, the idea was; if they don’t screw us too bad, they get get contracts. Kerry is’nt in the White House yet, so we moved ahead with a strategy that takes care up the US, not other countries for free. Alot of countires are used to paychecks from Clinton with little or no effort. That has changed and until they realize that they’ll just sit and wait for another Clinton to give them free money. Carvelle and Clinton are still getting paid by foreign countires.