French, Spanish, Italian and Turkish parliaments have also put a variety of caveats on exposing their troops to danger. Some are prohibited from moving at night, which is when Taliban guerrillas move.
But outside of the national security elites in European countries, few buy in to Gates' admonitions. European media see Afghanistan as part of the Iraq imbroglio.
..democracy in Afghanistan is unattainable. At 9,000 tons a year, up 1,000 tons in a year, the opium poppy is now 80 percent of this narco-state's economy. Drug lords have replaced the warlords who replaced the Taliban.
...[in Munich] on Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and the Palestinian crisis, there was no fresh thinking.
The unspoken European view of the U.S. request for more troops for Afghanistan says if it weren't for Iraq, the United States would have no problem with the Taliban today. With the upcoming state visit of Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Baghdad, they also see an unhappy end to the Bush administration's grand design for Iraq and the emergence, sooner or later, of Iran as a nuclear power.
Next. "C'est un scandale !"
An example of his "information":
There is a new generation of Europeans who reached adulthood reading bestsellers that "document" how Sept. 11 was a plot cooked up by the CIA and Mossad to make Saudis the culprits.
What????
The man is utterly skewed, utterly poisonous. When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
Comes a time when you have to face it. When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
No doubt I'm part of the conspiracy of the old, keeping the youth down, but I didn't expect it to happen quite so soon. Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.
