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Old 14th Jun 2011, 08:02
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Laarbruch72
 
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By fighting I mean bombing from above*, using ground troops, allocating significant assets, killing bad guys, and unfortunately losing the lives of some good soldiers.
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Norwegian and Swedish SF have been carrying out ops in Afghanistan in some very dangerous areas close to the Pakistan border for years, taking casualties and causing a lot more. Belgian and Dutch aircraft have undertaken CAS duties and dropped plenty of ordnance in Afghanistan. Dutch troops have been taking part in combat operations alongside the British and Canadians in ISAF South since 2006 although they're withdrawing now. Danish troops have fought in Afghanistan and aircraft ar committed to Libya.

I think your point is that many countries don't do their fair share and I accept that but to say that no-one else in Europe is a "fighting country" probably does a lot of people a disservice.
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