I think the point is that Britain and Canada sends troops into harms way whilst other NATO allies sit pretty. They could share the burden.
This has been brought up before but I was reading a couple of months ago some interviews with British soldiers in Afghanistan and they were not happy with any of their NATO partners except for the Dutch, Canadians and Americans.
When a bunch of paras had to go help out the Danes who were holed up one para was very scathing about how if they had come out under the cover of para and marine support then maybe there wouldn't have been the casualties.
I can understand the German sensitivies to send troops into battle, though maybe it is time they got over it. However it is the French who piss me off the most.
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