An item on Michael Yon’s website highlights how U.S. military personnel moved heaven and earth to save the life of a young British soldier.

By contrast, Yon relays a very different scene for our troops at a remote Spanish base in Afghanistan. He writes: “our soldiers and Marines, living in rough conditions at the far tip of the spear, apparently are being treated with contempt, with all basic support denied, from laundry to the conditions of the field on which our troops do their thankless job. If this report is true, and I have no reason to doubt it, the Spanish are endangering the lives of our warriors by failing to provide basic safety.”