" ... Defense Secretary Robert Gates, continuing his self-described effort to "nag" allies for more troops in Afghanistan without alienating them, said Thursday that NATO was not in crisis and that the Afghan mission was not failing.
Those comments, during an informal session of NATO defense ministers here, came one day after he warned Congress that the Atlantic alliance risked becoming a "two-tiered" organization, divided between "some allies willing to fight and die to protect people's security, and others who are not." ... "
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