Bones

It’s still early here on the East Coast, but I’d wager Alex Massie’s penned the best quip I’m likely to read all day:

One other thing: “Some of our NATO allies aren’t carrying their share of the military burden”. Well, that’s become the prevailing view and I dare say there’s some truth to it. Some troops probably could do with operating under more robust terms of engagement and all the rest of it. But all of them, regardless of nationality, would be better served by a strategy that had clear and realistic goals. Or to put it another way, if I were a Pomeranian, I’m not sure that it would be head-slappingly obvious to me that Afghanistan is worth the bones of any (or any more) of my grenadiers…