> it's important to note it was a NATO operation with full support from European partners, unlike the invasion of Iraq Not wrong in the general thrust, but I t

> it's important to note it was a NATO operation with full support from European partners, unlike the invasion of Iraq Not wrong in the general thrust, but I think "full support from European partners" is overstating it a bit. By raw numbers, it had support of about half of the European NATO members. It's true that the half supporting were generally more important/core members than the half abstaining or opposing though; the only really core NATO member who conspicuously abstained was Germany. Others abstaining were mostly new or more peripheral members, but still a significant number: Portugal, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Albania, Hungary.