[xzins]

Anybody who knows NATO knows that the US has to be the main player in any nato combat ops. The US owns the lions share of NATO’s combat forces, and the other NATO members have all kinds of reservations about injuring anything at all. That’s what makes them such useless allies. We fund nato, staff nato, provision nato, fight nato’s wars, and, if nato blood is shed, it is 99% of the time American blood.

[EnglishCon]

Not disagreeing about the US being the 900lb gorrila of NATO, but we are pulling our weight here too, both with combat flights and logistics. Hundreds of bombing runs and no fly zone enforcement flights have also been carried out by the French, British and Italians, from two airbases in the South of Italy.
(Son in law's younger brother is currently “temporarily” stationed down there - which anyone who has been in any of the forces knows means “we have no clue when you are coming home, so stop complaining!”)

After all, Libya is a bigger threat to us than you, especially with the news of Sudan being on the move again.