Thank God for the Dutch

My faith in Europe is always low. Save for the Brits and the Dutch.

Anne Applebaum writes of one Dutch company currently serving in Afghanistan. Few have fought harder or more bravely than the Dutch there.

Afghanistan is bigger than Iraq, more rugged, more impoverished, and vastly more complicated, with more languages, more ethnic groups, more tribes, and more lethal neighbors. It has only begun to test our stamina.