Other NATO Nations not shouldering Afghanistan burden.

[Konovalov]

Originally Posted by bookworm_020

Australia has had troops in Afghanistan and Iraq from day one. The nubers may not be that large compared to others, but with have a lot more deployed in the Pacific trying to help there, such as Boganville, Fiji, Solomans, East Timor and so on.

This is realy pushing the ability of the armed forces as they only have so much to go around. It isn't like they are being deployed to one place only.

We having been pulling more than our fair share of the weight from day one. Iraq, Afghanistan, not to mention the South Pacific island deployments. The ADF are pretty well stretched just as the Brits are. Quite frankly I'm tired of some Euro nations that have been making token contributions.