NATO To Manage U.S. Troops In Afghanistan

[Mark E. Smith]

KABUL, Afghanistan - America's direct control of military operations in Afghanistan
will dwindle to a single air base within days as the NATO alliance assumes a
nationwide command that places 12,000 more U.S. troops under its authority, a
spokesman for the alliance said Sunday.

The expansion will consolidate military command under top NATO leader British
Gen. Karl Eikenberry, whose troops will be transferred to NATO, said Mark Laity, an
alliance spokesman in Kabul.

Of 40,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, only 8,000 U.S. troops will function outside
NATO control: those tracking al-Qaeda terrorists or involved in air operations, Laity
said. The overall level of American forces will remain around 20,000.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15085146/

Remember how the right wailed endlessly about our troops serving under foreign
command when Clinton was president? That concern would now appear to be no
longer operative.

[Mark E. Smith]

1. Additionally ...

"For the first time in military history, U.S. military personnel are
not under the control of United States Generals."

- Rush Limbaugh on Bosnia.

[Moderator]

2. duplicate

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