Meanwhile, In Afghanistan...

The Secretary of Defense continues to chastise NATO over Afghanistan-

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates sharply criticized NATO countries yesterday for not supplying urgently needed trainers, helicopters and infantry for Afghanistan as violence escalates there, vowing not to let the alliance "off the hook."...

No word in the article on whether Mr. Gates also berated the President who abandoned that war to fight a cooler one five years ago. It would seem he simply settled for insulting those who are trying to hold it together.

These NATO countries didn't start this war. They're doing us a favor. They deserve thanks for helping to clean up our mess, not a scolding from a man too frustrated by out-of-control events to focus his ire in the correct direction. "Off the hook"? We need them, not the other way around.