"Instead of thanking the members of NATO for answering our call and sending their troops to Afghanistan after 9/11, Trump decided to talk about the money they owed.
MICHAEL DALY 05.26.17 1:00 AM ET President Trump might have at least praised his wife’s tiny homeland of Slovenia for being among the many nations that sent troops to Afghanistan after 9/11 prompted the U.S. to invoke Article 5, as NATO's collective defense provision is known. Trump also could have recognized Denmark, which by a measure first applied to this war by Steve Coll of The New Yorker has suffered a slightly higher per capita rate of combat casualties in Afghanistan than has even the United States."
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