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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Anglosphere delivers where NATO fails

With the death of four more Canadian soldiers yesterday, it is becoming obvious which countries are carrying the burden in the war against the Taliban. According to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, proportionate to the number of forces on the ground from each NATO contributor, a Canadian soldier is three times more likely to be killed than a British soldier in Afstan, four times more likely than a US soldier in Afstan and six times more likely than a US soldier serving in Iraq.

Apart from Canada, the UK, the US and the Dutch, NATO is failing the test in southern Afghanistan, where all of the heavy fighting with the Taliban is taking place. Most nations of the military alliance prefer the relative comfort of guarrison duty in the north, and have refused to send reinforcements even after the NATO commander requested assistance to relieve the situation facing the Canadians and Brits operating in the south, who together have lost around 80 soldiers, half of these coming this summer alone. Thankfully Australia, not even a member of NATO, is stepping to the fore with 400 soldiers of its own, to fill part of the gap. Canada too is sending more tanks and soldiers, bringing its total force to 2,500.

I always thought the Anglo-American alliance that liberated the countries of Europe and Asia in WW2 was merely a fact of being the only ones left to do the job. More than sixty years later, we're still the only ones substantially doing it, generating an unfair level of risk and burden to our fighting soldiers.

Related: Can NATO survive Afstan's killing fields?

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