Sunday, April 24, 2011

Afghanistan: a peace of paper

Good thing there are the Northern League. To which the principles do not give a damn, but a lot of Danee. It is the Northern League that Berlusconi is pushing to scale back our involvement in so-called "peacekeeping missions". But Knight has put his finger on the lens further from the truth on the only real strong UN peacekeeping mission in recent years, in the presence of an international force to Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel, thereby preventing the massacre of these two communities to each other.

But the League has long push for the withdrawal of our troops from Afghanistan, whose presence is costing us € 800 million a year in a time of emergency or serious economic crisis. Happy for us, though not comparable to one billion U.S. dollars in the public debt is about to blow up the whole world.

The difference between the mission in Lebanon and one in Afghanistan is obvious. In Afghanistan, NATO is waging a war (in our case in clear violation of Article 11 of the Constitution) and occupies a country for ten years. What were the results of this brilliant operation? We had the intentions, rebuild a country that just us, together with the Soviets, had helped to destroy and instead we have finally destroyed, in terms of physical, economic, social and moral.

During the Taliban in Kabul and were living one million two hundred thousand people, today there are five and a half million. This would be enough. Unemployment stood at 8% today to 40 to 80 and in some regions. Local crafts were destroyed (now the burqa them the Chinese do). In Afghanistan the Taliban ruled there was not corruption, is now endemic in our government, local authorities, police, army and even some in the international contingents.

But perhaps more devastating is that corruption of the judiciary. To have a ruling you have to pay for her favor should overpay. So much so that the Afghans, even those who do not share the sharia, they prefer to go to court without the Taliban because their is any justice at least one justice, albeit sloppily.

Ashraf Ghani, an Afghan doctor who did his doctorate at Columbia University who has taught eight years at Berkeley and John Hopkins, who was an official of the World Bank, as westernisation of the candidates in the presidential elections of 2009 (a farce: 35 % of voters, with tens of thousands of voters who voted twice or three times), and therefore not be suspected of Taliban sympathies, said bitterly: "In 2001 we were poor but we had our morality.

This flood of dollars destroyed our integrity. " In 2000, Mullah Omar had stopped poppy cultivation and opium production had fallen to almost zero. Afghanistan now produces 93% of the world's opium. Today, all Afghans, not just the Taliban, Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Hazaras, rural people, men and women gathered in the city, only want one thing: that foreign troops leave.

If international terrorism has had with bin Laden, his base in Afghanistan, is today quite clearly elsewhere. So why do we insist on staying in that country to kill us and kill people (60,000 civilian deaths) that there has done anything wrong and if ever there would not be in pretendessimo of weapons on their land? , April 23, 2011

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