British Report: NATO Allies' Reluctance (and our slaughtering of innocent civilians) Hurting Mission

From the CBC. A report by the British Parliament has discovered two weaknesses in the NATO mission in Afghanistan.

The report published Wednesday by the House of Commons defence committee warned the entire campaign is at risk if NATO members continue to refuse to deploy additional soldiers and increase development aid.

The report also blames serious strategic mistakes such as corrupt police and growing civilian casualties.

More development aid would be a good idea, but if Britain, Canada, and the United States paid what they said they would, that alone would have been enough to get reconstruction well under way. We didn't, because (as is obvious) we don't really give a shit about these people. How else to explain it?

But observe the tortured logic: "Growing civilian casualties" and "NATO members ... refuse to deploy additional soldiers." In other words, our NATO allies should send more soldiers to create more civilian casualites. Yeah, that'll fix things.

Italy should send some jets over to blast some villages to pieces. Then you'll se the insurgency vanish in an instant.