If you were in any doubt (hopefully not) about what a ragbag of chancers and sycophantic opportunists NATO is, just listen to the leaders of Australia and Canada recently. Julia Gillard is the worst. She said recently 'we ''must stand firmly by" the US, and that there was "a new international strategy in place - focused on counterinsurgency". The obvious question for Gillard then is, what has changed in nine months? When is she going to explain what impact America's apparent loss of faith in the counterinsurgency strategy will have on Afghanistan? Is Obama's announcement an "enormous" propaganda victory for terrorists? Or has the Prime Minister been less than straight with us about why we are in Afghanistan?
Contrast Gillard's rhetoric with that of Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, who is withdrawing all combat troops from Afghanistan. In a farewell visit last month to Kandahar, where Canadian troops have been based, he told soldiers Afghanistan "does not represent a geostrategic risk to the world. It is no longer a source of global terrorism".
Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/opinion/politics/gillard-is-a-chorus-of-one-on-afghanistan-20110630-1gsv6.html#ixzz1QmIemDSk
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