I will say briefly that it's democracy in action, I'm afraid. These independent nations within the alliance can determine what they want to do; they have their own ways of going about doing things. There's also I think in this discussion of burden sharing—that's the code word in NATO—a certain element of “After you, Alphonse.” Somebody is waiting for somebody else to go first. We'll see.
It would be useful for the Canadian government--the parliamentary committee on NATO affairs--to continue to pressure these other allies, but remember, it's not at all unusual. When we were four years into the Balkans, the United States wasn't there. It took a lot of pressure to get the United States involved in the Balkan operations. I'm afraid this is the way the alliance works, and it's not perfect.