Adrian Hamilton: Nato is the wrong force in the wrong place
Afghanistan is a western intervention, under an agenda quite different from Nato's purpose
Published: 14 September 2006
For anyone who cares for multilateralism, the sight of the Europeans still refusing to offer more soldiers to the Nato force in Afghanistan is indeed excruciating. What no one dares to ask, however, is what the hell Nato is doing there in the first place.
Not in the sense of its mission, but the body itself. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was, after all, founded and developed as a defence alliance to defend western Europe against Russia. Once the wall came down, Nato should have been downgraded to something much smaller and looser.
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