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Stay in Afghanistan, Nato asks DutchTuesday 09 February 2010 Nato has made an official request to the Netherlands to stay in Afghanistan past the August 2010 pull-out date, news agency ANP reports, quoting sources in the Hague. The request was made very recently, the source said. It is not clear if the request focuses on Uruzgan, where most of the Netherlands 1,800 soldiers and support staff are stationed, or another province. Nato officials in December urged countries currently active in Afghanistan to extend their missions and to increase soldier numbers. A number of countries, including the US, have already done this. The Netherlands has also come under increasing pressure from the US to stay in the region beyond August. The Dutch cabinet is divided. The biggest party, the CDA, backs extending the Dutch role, but Labour want a speedy pull out. They have pledged to reach a deal by early March. On Monday it emerged that both parties would support giving the Netherlands a greater role in training Afghan soldiers and police officers as a potential compromise. © DutchNews.nl Get the DutchNews.nl newsletter in your mailbox: Click here to subscribe
For The Netherlands to pull out in Aug 2010 would be the right thing to do! Once one country starts the official pull out then the others will continue to withdraw. After 9 years it is about time for that country to take charge of it's own affairs again!!!! By Paula | February 9, 2010 12:55 PM Pull out to let the country take charge of its own affairs again? Like for instance letting the Taliban take over again and giving a base and support to those who want to destroy western civilisation? By Dus | February 9, 2010 1:39 PM at dus...dont forget it was the americans giving money to taliban in order to fight soviets..am i wrong? By kos | February 9, 2010 3:36 PM We'll I'm not excited about having the Dutch soldiers in Afghanistan, or Iraq or Kosova, or any other war for that matter... they're not very reliable and it seems, innocent people get killed when Dutch soldier's are around. By Buzzer | February 9, 2010 9:31 PM Kos, You are right, the USA did back the Taliban in the 1970's and 80's as part of the Cold War. And it's possible that the country never fell to the Soviets because of it. At the time the world was not aware of the problems which radical Islamic fundamentalism would pose in the future. But what does that have to do with the presence of Dutch military personnel being there in 2010? By Dus | February 10, 2010 9:16 AM Place your comments: |
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Afghanistan is an american war. The war loving american president lied to get his war machine friends into no-bid contracts and start to bankrupt the USA. The Russians wanted Afghanistan for a pipeline and too did the USA in this 1997 (Bush was governor of texas) BBC article. "Talaban in Texas" ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/west_asia/37021.stm ) The Afghanistan's said no and guess where the USA invaded?
By Paul Martin | February 9, 2010 12:42 PM