When the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark chose to fly bombing missions over Iraq alongside the U.S. against the terrorist forces of Islamic State, that decision represented a very confrontational taking of sides.
Here were three small democracies assertively accepting both the heightened risk of terrorist reprisals at home and Barack Obama ’s intention to “destroy” ISIS through a campaign that could take years.
Germany, the three countries’ big NATO ally and neighbor, didn’t join them. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Sept. 11 that “we neither have been asked to do something—nor would we do it.”
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