General Rick Hillier presenting soldiers from the Royal Gurkhas Rifles with a "Canadian Forces Unit Commendation." From Yahoo News/Reuters:
OTTAWA (Reuters) – The splits inside NATO over the Afghan war have turned the alliance into a rotting corpse that will be virtually impossible to revive, says the former head of Canada's armed forces.
General Rick Hillier also said the 28-member alliance was "dominated by jealousies and small, vicious political battles" and bemoaned its "lack of cohesion, clarity and professionalism" at the start of the Afghan mission.
Hillier made the angry comments in a new book called "A Soldier First: Bullets, Bureaucrats and the Politics of War," which was purchased by Reuters Tuesday ahead of its scheduled publication date next week. Hiller stepped down as chief of the defense staff last year.
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My Comment: Cannot disagree with the General on this one. Allegations of Italian bribes to the Taliban, German rules of engagement that basically mean that they cannot engage with the Taliban, and France saying that they will now not send one more soldier to Afghanistan .... this gives me an indication that the alliance is fragmented and disorganized. A corpse .... not yet .... but definitely getting there.
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