Europe 1, Obama 0

In an effort to get our European allies to contribute a meaningful number of additional troops to Afghanistan, Barack Obama has come up short. Other than commitments of a couple hundred troops, Europe has added nothing like the 17,000 new troops we just announced.

It looks like an Obama administration has not ushered in a sea change in our allies' willingness to help us in the fight against terrorism. As I discussed earlier, that is not surprising. The only thing that is surprising about this situation are the claims to the contrary during the presidential campaign.