EyeBrock EyeBrock:
For the forgetful on Afghanistan. We are members of NATO and have signed on to the Treaty. Article 6 of the North Atlantic Treaty was invoked by the US and all NATO members were obliged to respond.
We did.
If we don’t want to honour our treaty pledges, we should have quit NATO in 2001.
This has been debated ad naseum on this forum but the Treaty obligations remain.
On Libya, no such treaty requirements exist.
Actually what you're referring to is article 5 of the NATO treaty, and it was affirmed on April 5. Which is not to say that we were obligated to do so, i suspect much of it had to do with the sympathy that was generated by the AQ attack to invade Afghanistan. But again we were under the impression that the US knew what it was doing, since it was in fact them that wanted to invade in the first place.
Of course two years later the US went gallivanting off into Iraq to look for non-existent ties between Husssein and AQ and the non-existent WMD's and left the Afghan problem in the hands of NATO by dedicating the troops that should have been in Afghanistan to Iraq leaving NATO to more or less hold the bag.
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