President George Bush Tells NATO: share risks in Afghanistan

President George W. Bush has urged NATO allies that they need to start sharing more of the risks and burden with the war in Afghanistan.

At his ranch yesterday in Crawford, Texas the United States President met with Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (The NATO Secretary General) and talked about Afghanistan, with George Bush stressing how NATO needs to work on expansion and other issues.

Bush said to reporters after talks with Jaap de Hoop Scheffer:
“I pledged to the secretary general we’ll work with our NATO allies to convince them that they must share more of the burden and must all share the risks in meeting our goal”

George W. Bush has a very strong view that NATO allies must start committing more equipment and troops with the fighting in Afghanistan.

This is also my view and I feel very strongly about it as I have friends out in Afghanistan and I know they do not have the full support they could have.

Currently there are around 37,000 NATO-led troops in Afghanistan which also includes around 15,000 U.S. troops.

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