Tom Ordeman, Jr.
“I’ve always said, ‘Will they be there, if we ever needed them?’ And that’s really the ultimate test. And I’m not sure of that. I know that we would have been there, or we would be there, but will they be there? We’ve never needed them. We have never really asked anything of them. You know, they’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan, or this or that. And they did – they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.”
Trump’s statement is factually wrong, but his bombast reintroduces an uncomfortable truth: NATO contributed directly to the Afghan War’s failure. This is as good an occasion as any to unpack this controversy.
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