But this one is now past tense in the absolute: "NATO is the only remaining international organisation that the US contributed to set up and that the Bushistas haven't tried to undermine."

MacNeill undermined everything that's been done by NATO in Afghanistan from day 1 of his command takeover. Gates's absurd poturing is to hone US point.

The US made a 10 billion dollar pledge to Afghanistan: the US has pledged $10 billion to Afghanistan, a pledge, by the way, that still has to be realized and transformed into a real dollar macoy as follows: $8 billion of that pledge going into "security" operations and $2 billion to infrastructure building.

And now, the accusation... what next?