Wondered what you think
The fact that every party in the Norwegian parliament apart from the Socialist (SV) was ready to back a proposal to send the Telemark Batallion battle group the Helmand last winter (In addition to the Bn in Mazar i S.)summs it up really.
They (SV) have Norway leaving NATO in their charter, and since they are in a coalition goverment, they are throwing all sorts of wreches in the works. A party with 6,8% of the votes has Veto'ed a lot. They put a caveat on the deployment of 150 SOF soldiers in the spring. Just 6 months, and not outside the Kabul region. Embarrasing!
5 or 6 F-16s would have been in Afg. this summer too, had it not been for them.
Mind you they are not as bad as the communists (RV), their leader called the killing of a Norwegian SF soldier by the Taliban last month "a just defence against Nato aggresion".
To steer the tread back onto the Russians, the socialst haven't got the guts to say what they really mean: They don't want help from NATO.
Thankfully their 2 coaltion partners are strong Nato supporters.
I wonder if they rally know who has paid for 75% of the cost of the three last AW radars in the Bardufoss and North Cape areas at a cost of 132 million £.
