Bush: Some of our NATO allies let us down in Afghanistan

“What happened in Afghanistan was that our NATO allies, some of them, turned out not to be willing to fight,” Bush said. “Therefore, our assumption that we had ample troops — U.S. and NATO troops — turned out to be a not-true assumption. So we adjusted.”

The former president didn’t name any countries specifically from NATO, which includes 28 nations in Europe and North America. Some 785 military personnel from NATO countries besides the United States have been killed in Afghanistan since hostilities began in October 2001, with the United Kingdom, Canada and France having the most fatalities.