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...Europe, or the world - on view. As the continent's largest economy, Germany could have taken a lead to ensure that the European Union came together to weather the worst economic downturn in 70 years; it did not. Germany, to be sure, has contributed 4,000 troops to the NATO mission in Afghanistan. And yet there is deepening unease in Germany about the nation's involvement in the war there. That is partly because German troops are killing and being killed in greater numbers as violence rises. But there seems to be an underlying concern, too, as if such visible...
...rage and also out of fear for his own life, Mullah A rejoined the Taliban. Nowadays, he and his men ambush U.S.-led coalition targets in Helmand and Kandahar provinces, and he brags to TIME that recently his outfit blasted a dozen rocket-propelled grenades into the NATO base at Kandahar. (See pictures of U.S. Marines at war in Afghanistan's Kunar province...
...must bring our boys home [from Afghanistan] as soon as possible." Speaking at a European Union summit in Brussels, he cautioned that there was no fixed timetable for the pullout of the 3,100-strong contingent and that any withdrawal must be worked out with the other NATO allies present in Afghanistan. (See pictures of Afghanistan's dangerous Korengal Valley...
...Sergio Romano, a Corriere columnist and former Italian ambassador to NATO, says Frattini's concerns echo those expressed in the halls of power across continental Europe. "He's saying what almost all European leaders are saying, either privately or publicly," Romano tells TIME. "There is a rather widespread idea that [the mission in Afghanistan] is not leading anywhere...
...NATO In Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen welcomed the U.S. decision, a sentiment echoed in a statement released by Britain's Foreign Office, which said the announcement "confirms the close cooperation between the U.S. and NATO allies on developing antimissile systems." Rasmussen also said missile defense would continue in an altered form. "It is my clear impression that the American plan on missile defense will involve NATO ... to a higher degree in the future," the AP reported him as saying. "This is a positive step in the direction of an inclusive and transparent process, which I also think...