Reply #41: Wrong. France has the 2nd largest troop committment in Afghanistan.

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That's hardly "token". And Iraq was NEVER a NATO conflict, so your point is completely moot there.

I also never disputed that France had *withdrawn* from NATO, so you are arguing a point which has already been established (THAT would be sign #1 that you are ill-informed...). That was DeGaulle's little fit of pique, and it was always understood by military men in both the US and France that if the Warsaw Pact ever came boiling into Western Europe, French troops would fully cooperate with everything NATO did. What's your point?

Yes, the US provides the bulk of NATO troops. Because we have by far the largest standing military and by far the largest population of any NATO nation. Again, what's your fucking point?!?!?!?