Friday, May 6, 2011

War is not a term or is done or not done

Wednesday, while the Italian Parliament voted on the mission to Libya, bombs, yes, but in the end, the secretary general of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen reminded reporters the three conditions set by the foreign ministers of the Alliance, meeting in Berlin in April, NATO to suspend attacks on Libya, being held from March 20: the suspension of all attacks against rebels and civilians returning to their bases of all military and paramilitary forces loyal to the regime, ensuring that humanitarian aid can be distributed freely and safely.

Rasmussen repeated: "We decided together in Berlin," this Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini. "When these objectives have been achieved, the NATO mission in Libya will be concluded." And reporters who questioned him on the claim of Italy to set a date for the end of the NATO attacks, Rasmussen replied, with the air of one who repeats a lesson too well known: "You can not set a date.

Those are three conditions that determine the duration of the operation. " Now, one might think that Rasmussen, a former Danish prime minister, conservative, good friend of President Bush - Not just the Silvio era - are guilty of rigidity in the Nordic smart take on the subtle political messages in italics.

But today, the same things she has said, in words similar, Admiral Giampaolo di Paola, a former Chief of Staff of the Italian defense, now president of the Military Committee of NATO. And the admiral to grasp the subtleties Italic. The fact is that war is not finished: when they begin, you never know for sure when, and how it will end.

They know it well, you may be sure, Frattini and the Minister of Defense Ignazio La Russa, but sometimes it is convenient to forget. Look at the war on terrorism, the U.S. military called it, from the beginning, 'the long war, "the long war: it took almost 10 years for those 38 minutes of deadly raids against Osama bin Laden, Hillary Clinton, today in Rome, called "the most intense minutes of my life," adding that "the fight does not end 'with the death of the leader of al Qaida.

At the Contact Group on Libya, which allocates aid to Libya for $ 250 million and endorse the charges suggested by the UN tribunal for crimes against humanity against Muammar Gaddafi, Frattini, as if the Parliament's motion nothing it confirms the commitment in international missions. A commitment to end? The Minister for bulldozing, but said a new, the "cease-fire will be within a few weeks.

Maybe it's true, especially if the Alliance will establish time limits for its action. The war is not completed, nor "just a little 'or you, or do not do it. Given the choice, the second is better, but you have to think about it first.

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