USA – Afghanistan

It is interesting to watch the US hunker down and decide what the new policy will be in Afghanistan.
I thought it was Nato that was supposed to do that.
NATO’s main role in Afghanistan was to assist the Afghan Government in exercising and extending its authority and influence across the country, paving the way for reconstruction and effective governance. It does this predominately through its UN-mandated International Security Assistance Force.
Since NATO took command of ISAF in 2003, the Alliance gradually expanded the reach of its mission, originally limited to Kabul, to cover Afghanistan’s whole territory. The number of ISAF troops has grown accordingly from the initial 5,000 to around 50.000 troops coming from 42 countries, including all 28 NATO members.
It seems odd to me that those in Washington are deciding what will happen next. Isn’t it NATO’s role to decide strategy and direction? The fact is that NATO really doesn’t exist as a thinking body but is simply a group of gullible countries that have been roped into helping the American’s dominate certain regions of the world. If you don’t believe me then why are they not sitting down at the table as a group. Instead…they are all sitting on the sidelines waiting for Obama to make his big decision on how to proceed and the countries will then take their marching orders. This would be very funny if we weren’t sending innocent young boys and girls to their deaths to defend a far off government that has committed fraud and corruption in all aspects of it’s elections and structure.