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Originally Posted by Skybird
America did. Euriopean NATO countries offere dtheir assistance in a bid for prevemjting a full scale war and settling the issue by non-martialö nation building, but america said "No, this show we run all alone". Not before the stakes were raised, the Tlaioban camke back in force and America relaised thast with Afghjanistan AND Iraq it had bit off more than it could chew the Americans suddenly wanted help from NATO, and under US command of course.
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Yes there is some truth to that. But NATO nations were probably involved without public knowledge. In Sean M. Maloney's book Enduring the Freedom he claims that members of Joint Task Force 2, Canada's elite special operations force were in Afghanistan in early October 2001 without the Prime Minister's permission. Hmm..?
Task Force K-Bar operated in Afghanistan from October 2001 to April 2002. It had members from U.S., Canada,
Germany, New Zealand, Norway and Denmark. This was before the NATO deployment in 2003.
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At that point however Europeans should have said No,
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Good in theory and hindsight but at the time not practical.
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They gave them shelter and actively protected them. That is the same. Fly with the crows, get shot with the crows.
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Yea it's true they were there and the Taliban was giving them shelter. But was it worth getting involved in a twelve year long war that cost trillions of dollars, thousands of casualties and undoubtedly increased the resolve of Jihadists worldwide? I for one do not think the pay off and the price add up. As I said we have probably made the situation worse. We will probably see in the near future. I would not want to be a citizen of Afghanistan.