NATO troops did die for the US in Afghanistan

The BBC reports:

Andy Reid had been in Afghanistan for three months when the incident happened that would change his life forever. 

Out on a routine patrol in the Helmand Province, he stood on a Taliban improvised explosive device, resulting in him losing both legs and an arm. 

“I was there on the floor on my back, a big dust cloud all around me. I couldn’t hear anything,” he says. 

“I wasn’t really in any pain at the time, but I felt some numbness throughout my body.”

“I knew something bad had happened to me. I looked down and I couldn’t see my legs at that stage.”

He was one of thousands of British troops injured in Afghanistan. A further 457 British service personnel were killed in the conflict.

For the injured and the families of the deceased, many are deeply offended at US President Donald Trump’s claim in an interview that America’s Nato allies sent “some troops” to Afghanistan, but “stayed a little back, a little off the front lines”.

Over 800 mainly NATO troops died in Afghanistan, responding to the attack on the US on 9/11. They did not stay back from the front lines. 457 UK and 159 Canadian soldiers were killed.

The death rate per million population was:

1. Georgia 8.42
2. US 7.96
3. Denmark 7.82
4. UK 7.25
5. Estonia 6.92
6. Canada 4.68
7. NZ 2.27
8. Norway 2.04
9. Australia 1.86
10. Latvia 1.82

43 Danish troops died fighting for the US in Afghanistan. It is no surprise that they feel aggrieved with his threats over Greenland. It is a shameful way to treat an ally whose soldiers died fighting for you.

There is real anger in the UK. Even Keir Starmer has come out swinging as families of dead soldiers have been very vocal about how insulted they feel – especially coming from someone who avoided the draft for Vietnam.

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