War has come. A stone's throw from us. Because Libya is right there, just beyond our shores. We knew for some time that North Africa is in turmoil. Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria as well. And then Libya. But until yesterday we had imagined - would imagine - that it was "without them." Movements, revolutions, riots, even exploding inside them.
We are concerned first and foremost for the effects on migration flows. The first - the only - concern expressed by the government through its leading members in the beginning. For most Italians, however, it was - has always treated me - with events far away, affecting distant worlds. In time and culture.
So: far away and nothing else. No matter that they are one step away from us. We've always considered them "beyond the wall." The new wall that separates us from the poorest countries. Of which Africa is the closest territory. Global communication, paradoxically, has made these events and these most unreal.
And further afield. Because new technologies have broken the barrier between time and space "(as noted in the Innocent Cipolletta suggestive, and almost prophetic, bankers, politicians and military publisher Laterza). So the distances and the differences fade. The tsunami in Japan, the revolution that shakes the Tunisia and Egypt.
The rebellions in Algeria and Bahrain. And the revolt in Libya. Everything flows under our eyes, without interruption. It is the spectacle of reality. Becoming so unreal, like a reality. So we have been slow to understand. To realize that Libya was in a war. That would have involved. Inevitably.
Libya. Once a "colony overseas." The fourth side. To us it is the region of a parallel universe and unreal. Like its sultan, Gaddafi. What came in Italy, most recently, with accompanying a caravan of camels and hundreds of virgins to convert. What has been camped in the center of Rome, setting up a tent city real.
Can not be truly real. Even if we, now, we are surprised not more than anything. "Our" sovereign, moreover, has accustomed us to an uninhibited style of governance. By abolishing the boundaries between communication and reality. Between entertainment and politics. And on average our foreign policy - as, in part, the inner one - is personalized and chases Berlusconi, his private relationships, his business.
The war. Until the end, we have not really believe it. We finished in the middle of an almost unconscious and involuntary. As has often happened in the past. Italy: a carrier, a strategic base, strategic location. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall along the eastern border outpost. Today: platform in the heart of the Mediterranean, the critical area of the new global order-dis.
Italians do not want war. As the population of all countries, however. But the Italians even more determined. Without revisiting the places of our common history, from Machiavelli, just refer to recent times. The attitude towards intervention in Afghanistan, before Iraq and after. The overwhelming majority of citizens against, no ifs, ands or buts.
Peace, out of conviction (including the weight of the Catholic tradition). But also for sensitivity and fear. Staff and family. (Polls have always stressed the significant aversion by women and mothers.) Our governments, including this, have shown great reluctance against armed intervention.
Without, however, do not participate. Constrained by geopolitical reasons and international links. So, they followed the allies in their companies, acting "to support" in the name of the undertaking "humanitarian and peace support. However, it is difficult to assist armies at war in the name of peace.
It is difficult to treat humanitarian who you fight, who do you consider an occupying army. So we found ourselves at war without saying so, without so deciding. About 8,000 military personnel engaged in the world. Almost half in Afghanistan. And we cried and celebrated as heroes of peace, our soldiers have died in war zones.
With the same attitude we have approached the conflict that broke out in Libya. Against the tyrant that we welcomed as an ally and friend - not just Berlusconi, even governments that preceded it. But no one before, had kissed her hand with the same cordiality "Gascon" Knight. Today we are the strategic outpost from which to start the attacks on the regime of Saddam.
Decided and led by France, Britain and the U.S. after the UN resolution 1973. Italy has adapted. Provides the foundation is ready to send its planes. While Italians continue to express their opposition to military intervention. Also on this occasion. As revealed from a survey a week ago from Lapolis University of Urbino, in the context of a search image of Italian foreign policy, edited by Fabio Turato.
Eight out of ten Italians (77.9%, to be exact) believe that to resolve the crisis in Libya, insist would agree with the diplomacy. And avoid the military way. Although Italy has done little in this regard. Did not impose a diplomatic solution and, like other times - sometimes more than others - is involved in a war.
Almost by accident. In contrast with the will of the majority of Italians. A position that only the league (along with right-wing newspaper) argued to the end. On the other hand - as is the habit of repeating the sociologist Paul Segatti - the League is a radical party "Italian." Without a specific geographic characterization.
Play the "common sense" national, marked by distrust in the institutions, public rules. The temptation to build small countries, mark the boundaries and erect walls. Old and new. To defend themselves from the world. Today: the Maghreb, and especially from Libya. But the "localism" in the era of globalization does not depart Libya.
We depart from the war. 
We are concerned first and foremost for the effects on migration flows. The first - the only - concern expressed by the government through its leading members in the beginning. For most Italians, however, it was - has always treated me - with events far away, affecting distant worlds. In time and culture.
So: far away and nothing else. No matter that they are one step away from us. We've always considered them "beyond the wall." The new wall that separates us from the poorest countries. Of which Africa is the closest territory. Global communication, paradoxically, has made these events and these most unreal.
And further afield. Because new technologies have broken the barrier between time and space "(as noted in the Innocent Cipolletta suggestive, and almost prophetic, bankers, politicians and military publisher Laterza). So the distances and the differences fade. The tsunami in Japan, the revolution that shakes the Tunisia and Egypt.
The rebellions in Algeria and Bahrain. And the revolt in Libya. Everything flows under our eyes, without interruption. It is the spectacle of reality. Becoming so unreal, like a reality. So we have been slow to understand. To realize that Libya was in a war. That would have involved. Inevitably.
Libya. Once a "colony overseas." The fourth side. To us it is the region of a parallel universe and unreal. Like its sultan, Gaddafi. What came in Italy, most recently, with accompanying a caravan of camels and hundreds of virgins to convert. What has been camped in the center of Rome, setting up a tent city real.
Can not be truly real. Even if we, now, we are surprised not more than anything. "Our" sovereign, moreover, has accustomed us to an uninhibited style of governance. By abolishing the boundaries between communication and reality. Between entertainment and politics. And on average our foreign policy - as, in part, the inner one - is personalized and chases Berlusconi, his private relationships, his business.
The war. Until the end, we have not really believe it. We finished in the middle of an almost unconscious and involuntary. As has often happened in the past. Italy: a carrier, a strategic base, strategic location. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall along the eastern border outpost. Today: platform in the heart of the Mediterranean, the critical area of the new global order-dis.
Italians do not want war. As the population of all countries, however. But the Italians even more determined. Without revisiting the places of our common history, from Machiavelli, just refer to recent times. The attitude towards intervention in Afghanistan, before Iraq and after. The overwhelming majority of citizens against, no ifs, ands or buts.
Peace, out of conviction (including the weight of the Catholic tradition). But also for sensitivity and fear. Staff and family. (Polls have always stressed the significant aversion by women and mothers.) Our governments, including this, have shown great reluctance against armed intervention.
Without, however, do not participate. Constrained by geopolitical reasons and international links. So, they followed the allies in their companies, acting "to support" in the name of the undertaking "humanitarian and peace support. However, it is difficult to assist armies at war in the name of peace.
It is difficult to treat humanitarian who you fight, who do you consider an occupying army. So we found ourselves at war without saying so, without so deciding. About 8,000 military personnel engaged in the world. Almost half in Afghanistan. And we cried and celebrated as heroes of peace, our soldiers have died in war zones.
With the same attitude we have approached the conflict that broke out in Libya. Against the tyrant that we welcomed as an ally and friend - not just Berlusconi, even governments that preceded it. But no one before, had kissed her hand with the same cordiality "Gascon" Knight. Today we are the strategic outpost from which to start the attacks on the regime of Saddam.
Decided and led by France, Britain and the U.S. after the UN resolution 1973. Italy has adapted. Provides the foundation is ready to send its planes. While Italians continue to express their opposition to military intervention. Also on this occasion. As revealed from a survey a week ago from Lapolis University of Urbino, in the context of a search image of Italian foreign policy, edited by Fabio Turato.
Eight out of ten Italians (77.9%, to be exact) believe that to resolve the crisis in Libya, insist would agree with the diplomacy. And avoid the military way. Although Italy has done little in this regard. Did not impose a diplomatic solution and, like other times - sometimes more than others - is involved in a war.
Almost by accident. In contrast with the will of the majority of Italians. A position that only the league (along with right-wing newspaper) argued to the end. On the other hand - as is the habit of repeating the sociologist Paul Segatti - the League is a radical party "Italian." Without a specific geographic characterization.
Play the "common sense" national, marked by distrust in the institutions, public rules. The temptation to build small countries, mark the boundaries and erect walls. Old and new. To defend themselves from the world. Today: the Maghreb, and especially from Libya. But the "localism" in the era of globalization does not depart Libya.
We depart from the war.
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