Dutch army first to remove finger from wikileaking Afghan dyke

How long before the floodgates open?
 
Dr. Ian Davis, director of NATO Watch
 
In the ‘legend of the dyke’, a Dutch boy saves his country by putting his finger in a leaking dyke. The boy stays there throughout the bitterly cold night until the adults of the village find him and make the necessary repairs. In a contemporary twist to this story, however, after four years of dyke-plugging in Afghanistan, the Dutch people have had enough. Last weekend the Netherlands became the first NATO country to end its combat mission in Afghanistan.
 
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