Our allies passed your test, Mr. President. Would we?

President Donald Trump was dead wrong to say our foreign allies “stayed a little back, a little off the front lines” in Afghanistan.In 2014, I was an infantry platoon leader with the 101st Airborne Division, deployed to Kandahar, the hometown of the Taliban. Every Tuesday night, I would make a secure phone call to my Australian counterpart to coordinate security for Wednesday’s joint mission at the governor’s compound. The plan was almost always the same: my platoon would