If I may, General King talked about the consultative process, etc. What has been, shall we say, somewhat different in this operation is the fact that the United States had deliberately said it would step back a bit and not necessarily lead the charge, as it has in many other operations—you just have to look at the numbers in Afghanistan, for instance. So we did see some of our NATO allies, particularly the United Kingdom and France and Italy, really step up in many different respects to take up that share, and certainly Canada was front and centre in so many different ways, as General King described.
On October 27th, 2011. See this statement in context.