Neil Abercrombie: “The NATO allies are not going to increase to the degree they have any troops there at all, and they do have some in…”

“The NATO allies are not going to increase to the degree they have any troops there at all, and they do have some in insignificant numbers. The Italians, for example, have police officers, and so on, but insignificant numbers. They are reluctant at best, if not outright hostile, toward the idea of increasing their presence in Iraq for a simple reason, it is the NATO forces in Afghanistan that are bearing the brunt of trying to deal with the continuing battle that is going on there against terrorism. That war on terror was not won in Afghanistan, it is ongoing. It is ongoing as we speak. We do not have sufficient forces, let alone intelligence there, right now. The gentleman may know we now have to deal with the horrifying consequences and stories that will be going around based on what happened in Afghanistan within the last 36 hours where nine children were killed in an attempt to try to take a presumed militant, whatever the word is these days that is attached to anybody that we can presume to be an enemy. We do not have sufficient forces, we do not have sufficient assets, we do not have sufficient concentration of intelligence efforts in Afghanistan right now because we are diverted in Iraq.”