Broken Pinky Finger Or Sprain

Lindenstraße ... Targeted stupidity

by Clemens Wergin 15th September 2009 The soldiers of the Fallschirmjägerbatallions 261 are outraged. The third company is taken up for discussion with Inspector General Schneiderhan and three are accompanying journalists. When asked what they think of the German debate on air attack on two tankers, in which dozens of people were killed, it bubbles out of them: "I fully understand how politicians just a few hours after the incident, and without just knowledge of the facts can have your say, "says a Train drivers. In the men here in Kunduz there is the impression, as did some quick points in the campaign - on the backs of soldiers. The media get off a whole load of criticism: let Afterwards always easy to say that a decision had been wrong. Ultimately, says company chief Krüger, only the Colonel knew how the situation was that in the end led to his decision to request the attacks. His men at any rate stood fully behind the decision of the commander, in the face of all that was done previously.

The Paratrooper Company is the second time in Kunduz. Therefore, the soldiers know best how much the security situation has changed there. The men and women travel a lot in the destabilized region of Taliban Chahar Darreh west of Kunduz. "There is the risk increased compared to last year by 100 percent," says Sergeant Major Heiko W. "Even as soldiers there, we can no longer move freely, we must always expect the worst." Meanwhile, the insurgents were there even on the day amidst armed civilians. Which is indeed the Bundeswehr soldiers to set still positive. But now the family would expect to be at night, threatened by the Taliban when they were a day too readily to discussions have taken up with the Germans. Such "information interview" is therefore much more difficult. The 3rd Company moves only with heavy armored vehicles in the villages. "We have the latest on the way back so expect to be shot," said Heiko W.

Since 10 July, the paratrooper company is back in Kunduz. In that time they had contact with the enemy 14 times, including two heavy fighting that lasted for hours. Some soldiers sit with arms and hands attached at the conference table, as they relate to the Inspector General of their experiences. On 5 September, the day after the controversial raid on those ford in Kunduz River, they came just returned from a deployment in Talokan, east of Kunduz. Along the road a car drove up and suddenly it exploded. It was a suicide bomber.

"I saw a red flash under the car, the door to be peeled," says a staff sergeant, who was sitting in the most affected by the detonation Dingo. Thus, a wheeled tank weighs more than eight tonnes and the force of the blast hurled him once on the roof and then back to the wheels before it plunged down a steep slope. Five soldiers and a translator were injured. A soldier suffered such severe burns that she had to be flown to Germany. These soldiers keep their heads every day for Deutschland hin. Deshalb finden sie es unbegreiflich, dass sich ihr Oberkommandierender Georg Klein nun auch noch vor Gericht verantworten muss.

„Soldaten müssen in kürzester Zeit über Leben und Tod entscheiden – über ihr eigens Leben, das des Gegners und von Zivilisten“, sagt der Chef der Fallschirmjäger-Kompanie. „Da brauchen die Männer dort draußen einen klaren Kopf.“ Sein Spieß Heiko W. pflichtet bei: „Man hat sonst ständig im Hinterkopf: Was passiert denn, wenn ich eine Fehlentscheidung treffe.“ Solche Entscheidungen würden meist in Sekunden oder gar Millisekunden gefällt.

Eben dieses Problem spricht Schneiderhan am Tag darauf in Kabul, when he meets Stanley McChrystal, the commander of ISAF: Restricts the use of new rule if it is handled rigorously, not the scope of the soldiers too strong a? Enter the world of the Taliban were not dangerous action spaces?

The men of the company are well aware of the ford where the stranded truck. "As the night moves usually does, which are all in their villages," said a train driver. Completely incomprehensible to him that some victims of the raid for that reason alone be considered civilians because some carried no weapons. "Insurgents are not always under arms," \u200b\u200bhe says. "Sometimes Are there innocent-looking farmer groups. They have then the next moment suddenly RPGs [rocket-propelled grenades so, the editor], and guns in hand "The most common" trick "of the Taliban at the moment is to pose as a civilian..

Colonel Klein does the popularity of his men clearly good. A "crazy colonel has theater director Claus Peymann called him on the television program by Anne Will. This is the opposite of a small Afghan Rambo. It is rather the type of meticulous officials as a madman. Comparatively small in stature, he is with delicate, down rimless spectacles on his nose. Klein has economic and organizational studies at the Bundeswehr University studied in Hamburg and it was obvious that he belongs to the people who think rather longer than the abdomen to rule out.

met on Tuesday an investigation of the Commission of the ISAF in Kunduz on Monday has the highest military of the Bundeswehr, Wolfgang Schneiderhan. Small things through, all with upright posture. At most vulnerable to a train around the lips and sometimes the red face can be read off how much he carries the whole thing. He had this whole "personality cult" in any case contrary, it is said in the camp.

In those two days in Kunduz always seem to say that Klein had the "shittiest job," which it in Bundeswehr derzeit gebe. Ständig stehen seine Männer unter Beschuss, ständig muss der Oberst Entscheidungen treffen, die das Leben seiner Männer und das von unbeteiligten Zivilisten retten oder gefährden können. Der Chef der 3. Kompanie drückt das vor Journalisten etwas feiner aus: „Der PRT-Posten in Kundus ist mit der Schwierigste, den die Bundeswehr hat“, sagt er. „Das muss anerkannt werden.“

Im Pressebüro von Oberstleutnant Carsten Spiering hängt ein Kalenderblatt des Jahres 2009. Mit rosa Marker sind hier die wichtigsten Feindberührungen eingetragen. Seit April verdichtet sich die rosa Farbe auffällig: Beschuss, Gefechte, Hinterhalte und Bombenanschläge. Dieses sich verdichtende Rosa bildet den Hintergrund, vor dem Klein in der Nacht zum 4. September jene Entscheidung traf, die beiden entführten Tanker im Fluss bombardieren zu lassen.

„Ich musste jederzeit damit rechnen, dass die wieder rollen“, sagt Klein. Und das wäre gefährlich gewesen. Seit geraumer Zeit lagen in Kundus Meldungen vor, wonach die Taliban Tanklastzüge stehlen wollten, um sie dann als fahrbare Bomben für Anschläge zu benutzen. Mitte August hatten die Islamisten schon einmal Tanklastzüge erbeutet. Ende August gab es in Kandahar tatsächlich solch einen Angriff. Dazu kamen Informationen, wonach ein konkreter Anschlag mit zwei Fahrzeugen gegen das Bundeswehrlager in Planung gewesen sei. Für den Oberst matched the stolen vehicles so in the picture of a worsening threat. That night

are limited Klein alternatives. The "Quick Reaction Force", the always-ready fighting force in the Bundeswehr, in heavy fighting in the framework of the NATO operation "Arragon" far involved in the archiving space. The other two companies of the Bundeswehr Kunduz site are bound by routine tasks. And it would be very dangerous to send ground troops into that region, were reported from the previously massive Taliban concentrations. The terrain is so "channels" that lead there are only two ways to the ford, says Klein: A route to the north was with improvised roadside bombs equipped. The second road leads through a village. There is a risk of being involved in the midst of civilians in combat.

Klein chooses words for air support.

A bombing had not been fixed immediately. This is also the reason why the B1-B bomber has been replaced by an F15 - to get over a long period of time video images. Klein is on that night in constant contact with the pilot. In the end, he can use the bombs. "I have taken this decision alone," says Klein, "because I am a threat to my people, for the Afghan security forces and the Afghan population saw. "

The next morning it became clear to him that this attack would cause an uproar. "I had to make in the past five and a half months, many difficult decisions," Klein said today. This one, however, raised in Germany, an unprecedented debate.

It is the job of Inspector General Schneiderhan to bring together both sides. Close that gap to help, which has opened up between the political class in Berlin, an excited public in Germany and the soldiers in Kunduz, who are outraged by the criticism of their colonel. Locals tell Schneiderhan to report what many soldiers, Afghans in Kundus seien froh, dass die Bundeswehr nun endlich robuster vorgehe. Die Deutschen hätten viel Zeit verloren. Nun müssten sie „den Raum aggressiver besetzen“. Über die Hysterie in Deutschland könnten die Menschen hier nur den Kopf schütteln. Nun habe man deshalb Angst, dass die Bundeswehr vielleicht ihr Engagement zurückfahren oder gar beenden könnte.

Schneiderhan weiß, dass solch eine Sicht in Berlin schwer zu vermitteln ist. Andererseits hat der Vorfall auch dazu geführt, dass in Deutschland eine Diskussion entbrannte, die zum ersten Mal die harten Realitäten in Kundus zur Kenntnis nimmt. Deshalb sagt auch Klein: „Es ist wichtig, dass man das alles diskutiert und untersucht – even for us soldiers. " In order to provide clarity.

On Monday evening, the sun is already low in the camp of the Bundeswehr in Kunduz. Beyond wall, razor wire and the security strip is driving to the camp together, a young Afghan shepherd his goats with a long tail, and the muezzin call to evening prayers at Kunduz. Then suddenly a bang and a short hiss. The Germans fired a drone in the blue-red sky, which is far away from the camp to search for Taliban. "The half hour by hour during the evening twilight prepares us the most problems," says one of the soldiers, who operates the drone. It is the time to operate the Taliban most. Because the vision the eyes already wears off, but it is not so dark, that the Germans could exploit the superior technology of night vision devices.

bursts next day then in the middle of a meeting with Inspector General Schneiderhan the message, a train was about 25 soldiers near Talokan become victims of a bombing. Fortunately there were no injuries, but recovered to be a dingo. Despite finding mission for Colonel Klein goes on and his soldiers, which is in the last weeks and months dangerous normality in Kunduz.

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In January, the police stormed the apartment of a 25-year student and his girlfriend in Duisburg and removed under the howling of several thousand anti-Israel demonstrators and two on the balcony of a window mounted Israel flags. A few days ago a 30-year student in Bochum, was sentenced to pay a fine because, by showing an Israeli flag on the participants in an anti-Israel demonstration "provoked" a "dangerous situation" created and is said to have violated the Assembly Act. Now there is a recent low point: Last Saturday, the police prohibited the participants of a rally against the "Al-Quds-demonstration by Islamists and neo-Nazis among others showing a flag with a Hebrew inscription as well as playing "Reduce the danger of escalation", a police spokesman said - Israeli music.

Islamist organizations mobilize every year since 1979 to the end of the fasting month of Ramadan around the world to "Al-Quds" activities. They refer to a call by the then Iranian "Supreme Leader" Ayatollah Khomeini, who had urged his followers to "liberate" Jerusalem and the destruction of Israel. In Berlin it is since 1996, "Al-Quds" demonstrations that are running openly called for the "destruction of the Zionist state" and anti-Semitic slogans are chanted. At this year's manifestation in the German capital had called in addition to various Islamist groups, the neo-Nazi "German People's Union (DVU). The predominantly Muslim participants chanted slogans like "Death to Israel" and "child killers Israel and Hezbollah flags of the anti-Semitic and showed portraits of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

For several years, coalitions of Jewish and non Jewish organizations against these anti-Semitic elevators at the Al-Quds Day "is active. This time, however, they were subjected to severe restrictions: Your demonstration was held in an enclosed area with bars, the foreman Arvid on the web portal Free Iran Now! as "a kind of rabbit hutch" described. The participants were also meticulous and sometimes rabid checks of their bags and backpacks have been exposed. And that's not all: According to various reports, the police refused a participant to show a Jerusalem-flag, on which the name of the Israeli capital was embroidered in Hebrew letters. Also were no songs in Hebrew and English texts are played, her CD had prepared the organizers of the rally so pack up again. Further we were a banner of the BAK Shalom, where called for in the English language, the decline of the Iranian Mullah regime are used. And from a poster on which called for the release of the captured Israeli soldiers by Hamas Gilad Shalit was, had to be removed at the behest of forces two English sentences.

Thomas Neuendorf, a spokesman for the Berlin police, confirmed the action of the officials on telephone request of Liza's world. "In recent years, the Al-Quds Day 'on both sides led to an increased emotional appeal," he said. They had "to contain the escalating danger" and was therefore do both with the leaders of "Al-Quds-demonstration and the organizers of the counter-rally in cooperation talks agreed," that there should be speeches, banners and music in the German language. " In this way, have you want to stop "on both sides," "that illegal content is distributed, we do not understand." Only two exceptions were allowed: to have the "Al-Quds-demonstration to an Imam reciting Koran verses," said one interpreter is asked of us care that he says nothing forbidden. " The counter demonstration was approved for it to play the Israeli national anthem in Hebrew. The "Death to Israel" - and "child killers Israel" Call, the Hezbollah flags and portraits of Nasrallah said Neuendorf, "There are hands are tied. The slogans are still just the right cover to free speech, and Hezbollah in Germany is now not even prohibited"
The Berlin police thus represents an anti-Israel, anti-Semitic rally in the same level and the democratic protest, they recorded both in the simple category of "enhanced emotional appeal" and placed under those who put up against Israel and Jewish hatred for the military, in fact the same escalating need, yes, the same fanaticism as the Israel-and Jew-haters. Such strange equidistance in this country but not atypical in the new German Post-war history should be, however, that compared to the participants of a rally, a Hebrew and English ban is pronounced. It could police spokesman Neuendorf call on demand any examples of Hebrew Israeli slogans or songs, which was called in the past to crime. However, he could not say when a demonstration against anti-Semitism and for Israel to ever be considered violence against Islamists, as she was complaining the other way around many times before. should have accepted

fact that those responsible for the counter demonstration during the preliminary meeting with the police allegedly proclaimed German bid actually appears In addition, at least doubtful. To our request of Liza's world of the applicant and leader of the rally, Jörg Fischer-Aharon contradicted by the education work haKadima, then decided: "The Hebrew and English ban was communicated verbally until shortly before the start of the event," he said. During the conversation, cooperation around three weeks, the police had only asked in passing whether contributions are being planned in Hebrew. "I'm negative, then the issue was settled," said Fischer-Aharon. In a phone call from one and a half weeks he had the police as a precaution but announced that during the rally against Israeli und englische Musik gespielt werden soll – wie schon, gänzlich unbeanstandet, während einer pro-israelischen Demonstration in Berlin im Januar. „Das sei auch diesmal kein Problem, bekam ich zur Antwort; man werde aber für alle Fälle einen Dolmetscher vorbeischicken.“ Von den plötzlichen Auflagen sei man deshalb vollkommen überrumpelt worden. „Wären sie vorher schon festgelegt worden, hätten wir mit Sicherheit Rechtsmittel dagegen eingelegt. Aber ich habe bis heute nichts Schriftliches von der Polizei bekommen. Das öffnet der Willkür natürlich Tür und Tor.“

Fischer-Aharon ist immer noch empört über das Vorgehen der Ordnungshüter: „Das ist ein historic day, but a sad one. The Berlin police banned actually showing the Jerusalem flag and the playing Jewish music, "The Mission Control have even threatened to" seize the sound system, should even a song in Hebrew will be played. " The Islamists against it was much more cautious: "There were not just slogans are called in Arabic, but it was even a demo folder the Nazi salute in our direction show [photo above], but that would have interfered in the vicinity of standing police . Strange finds Fischer-Aharon, the detention of a participant in the counter-rally due to a alleged violations of the Vermummungsverbot: "She had a hood on his head and wore sunglasses. That was probably too much for the police. For the Islamists, however, women could run along in a burqa, without the being disputed. "Furthermore, had several people had been refused without giving a reason to participate in the counter-rally, and Alexander Brenner, the former chairman of the Jewish community in Berlin, and the rabbi Ben Chorim have prevented the police from leaving the event. "Obviously," Fischer-Aharon, the grids were not the barrier, but the imprisonment of demonstrators.

May the Chancellor also emphasize the solidarity with Israel is a "part of the German raison d'etat," like the federal specifically deal with a anti-Semitism Commission, and like politicians protest of all parties to them is to fight the Jews hate affair of the heart: this is nothing but Wortgeklimper if the enemies of the Jews in general and the Jewish state in particular, get free travel, active opponent of Israel and hatred of the Jews but are harassed by police and legal means. provide 64 years after Auschwitz in the successor state of the "Third Reich" the heirs of the company and Himmler Freisler that only so no anti-Semite of Jewish symbols, Hebrew letters and Israeli songs provoked must feel, while retaining anti-Semitic marches unopposed despite unequivocal threats of annihilation towards Israel and clearly anti-Jewish slogans when they are in the media do not act as a "peace demonstrations", as happened earlier this year. But all this is good in Germany is not a scandal. For the biggest scandal is that there is none, because this kind upset anyone other than the usual suspects.

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Okay, okay. Take a deep breath and launched an understanding smile. For perhaps helps so sensitive Pädagogik. Ein offener Brief an einen aufrechten Antiimperialisten

Mein Guter – bitte wundere Dich nicht über diese Anrede, aber ich kenne Dich schon lange und weiß deswegen, dass Du ja eigentlich nur das Gute willst. Außerdem mache ich mir ernste Sorgen um Dich, denn Du hast es im Moment wirklich nicht leicht. Fast könntest Du mir sogar leidtun.

Denn das mit dem Iran ist aber auch so was von bescheuert. Wie konnte das nur passieren? Jetzt revoltieren die Menschen in der bedeutendsten Bastion des weltweiten Widerstandes gegen Imperialismus und Zionismus! Ausgerechnet dort! Welch diebische Freude haben Dir die Jungs in Teheran doch immer bereitet, wenn sie den Imperialismus mal wieder an der Nase herumgeführt have. Their slightly different cultural background, you might as getting used to understand the role of women has never bothered you, eventually you're not a racist. And only the fine speeches of Ahmadinejad, one can always as detailed read on the pages of the peace of advice - with them you're the warm showers only as running down the back when he has the imperialist pack once again been so right. The nefarious Zionists who translate it insidiously constantly wrong and push him, absurdly, that he wanted to rub out her damn structure, you could of course never deterred from the faith of his readiness for peace. For You know, that you are guilty you are one eventually, but not to those who fall for the manipulated media. Of course you have never spoken by the Zionist entity. You know, finally, how you have to formulate it. In this country where you better watch out for obvious reasons must be what they say. And all the exaggerated cheese with the nuclear weapon, so what, strictly speaking it is not all that bad, have you ever thought with you, I hope Chavez is also soon to the extent that would be a great defeat for imperialism.

And then suddenly out of nowhere! Since year and day you dream of a revolutionary situation. You know, of course, that then go down there and do not as those at the top can not continue with business as usual. Finally you have read your Lenin. I spare you now, even for a moment with my nagging at your beloved peoples and leave me completely on the good one that reigns in your soul. You see how the people of Iran stand up against their oppressors, but you hear how it calls for freedom. Urging it not something in you with power on his side? Be honest and among us: all we did not argue the fact that you finally give yourself the right time for another revolutionary enthusiasm?
But it is bewitched. She wants to set not go away. Why only? There is only one explanation: that uncomfortable feeling in your stomach that you whispered again: "Attention. This is the wrong people. Finally, it rebelled against the right one yet. "For the government in Tehran is somehow quite correctly, that was you but always clear. You think geopolitically. Therefore, after you calculate, how much greater the reach of the Yankees and the Zionists would be well were it not for the resistant Iranians. For these two, so please, that's really the basics of each upright peace friend and revolutionary, these two are surely undeniable, the summit of the evil in the world, the true axis of evil, if you will. The boys in Tehran are not talking without reason by the great and the little Satan.

My friend, perhaps it is no surprise you, but I'm insinuating now simply that you are a more sensitive on the variety and you, when you think of the Iranian regime opponents, can not really get into it, "Ahmadinejad's people one or have another carried in a Dark Room. " Well, you think that is the torture prisons and the zap of demonstrators holding but not quite the truth. But immediately logs your stomach, what do we know about it at all really? How much has he merely because the CIA invented again? And anyway: Do I have to take the benefit of the thing in buying? Could you endure the howling victory of the imperialists, if might take the counter-revolutionaries? Unthinkable!

you even know that your Iranian comrades have thought 30 years ago as well, back when they have helped bring Khomeini to power? And that they have paid for it after a few months with life? Or do you want to know not just? You still feel so much closer to the Tehran fighters against imperialism and Zionism, that you still can not even be approached to you? Is your anti-American and anti-Zionist resentment so great that you do not realize, as you also remember the last Bit of freedom to claim give up, if you take in with you where next? Look, my dear, resentment devour soul.

There it is again, that damn stomach cramp, the logs lately more and more with you. So first insert quickly the drug: "All just a dirty concoction of imperialism and its puppet masters and cunning schemers," Ah, You feel it as it wears, how it all again relaxed. This beneficial effect. Now you can sit back you again, your world is back on track.

For now, anyway. For a moment later you take a stroke: Now the circus is still true even in the World go young. As they are arguing about this matter already in Iran. If the Mossad place for his people even in your body and stomach leaf? On the other hand, give it to: In any corner of your heart shielded You were always a stupid feeling when the brilliant leader of the Socialist Unity Party in Caracas again so shamelessly to the Holocaust deniers in Tehran in the arms. Could not do a little less conspicuous?

Na notice, you know, like the imperialist agent begins to rumble in you? Hell, the CIA is really everywhere. It was you but until now all so clear in your world. Deceiver, puppet master, grasshoppers and warmongers dominated them and you. Whether they enslaved the people - especially the Palestinians, of course - or whether you took away the work and welfare shortened, but their greed was to blame. And how good your world would have been set up but only your own kind only had finally been allowed into power.

I fear, my dear, you will at some point you also have to deal with capitalism. This is the mode of production, which creates huge problems though, but at least no personal rule needs more, not Guardians and no morals police, who is paying attention, that the veil is in place, no life-long caudillo, or the like. But I want you to Leave one other time. For today I will only say this: The good left, which appears automatically on the correct side, because they eventually all the rest is hands down morally superior - which does not exist. What is emerging for some time, smells like something else. After a kackbraun-blood red, bright green united front from Nazis and Islamists Antiimps namely, the acting out their collectivist resentment under the banner of the struggle against speculators, the U.S. and Israel. Feel like you belong to? Some of your friends do this

Can you imitate those natural. But you do not. For there is fortunately something else. A flow that is emancipatory, deren Markenzeichen die Kritik an fetischistischer Vergesellschaftung ist (das sind Zustände, ihn denen sich die Menschen von ihren eigenen Hirngespinsten beherrschen lassen, verstehst Du?). Sie hat keine Fahne, aber wenn sie eine hätte, wäre es die der freien As­soziation der Individuen. Auch entsteht sie auf verschlungenen Pfaden und unter Geburtswehen, bringt mitunter – wie jede Befreiungsbewegung – sogar Karikaturen ihrer selbst hervor und ist sich über ihre Konturen oft selbst noch nicht im Klaren. Aber schau, Du singst doch ab und zu das hier (oder brummst es wenigstens mit): »Und weil der Mensch ein Mensch ist, drum hat er Stiefel im Gesicht nicht gern, er will unter sich keinen Sklaven sehn und über sich no master. "Believe me, if you really mean it so seriously, will you out sooner or later attributed this flow. Well, my dear not-Antiimp, you will also have to decide yourself. As Lenin said, but once your: "There are a middle course not here,"

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also on 11. September we read "Get out of Afghanistan" on the election posters of the SED successor party and - accordingly - in addition to the face of Mr. Lafontaine, that wars have never solved a problem. What he, Churchill, Roosevelt or Eisenhower would have responded to these unscrupulous propaganda? Or the victims in the concentration camps ? Ein Blick nach Ruanda, Darfur oder Srebrenica dürfte ebenfalls Material für eine Antwort liefern. Die Mehrheit der Deutschen (53 %) lehnt den Einsatz in Afghanistan ab (58 % der Anhänger der Grünen sagen nein, bei der SED-Nachfolgepartei sind es 80 %).

Anstatt der Bundeswehr, die bei einem Luftangriff über 50 Taliban tötete, zu gratulieren, steht das Gerücht ziviler Opfer im Mittelpunkt der Berichterstattung. Staatsanwälte, die sich aufspielen möchten, fabulieren von Ermittlungsverfahren gegen Bundeswehrsoldaten. Taliban, die nicht wie Zivilisten herumlaufen, hat aber auch noch niemand zu Gesicht bekommen. In einem Krieg (oder wie auch immer der neueste Euphemismus lautet, den Mitglieder der Federal government use) against non-uniformed terrorists are civilians tragic, but inevitable. In Germany, not the Taliban violates any law of war, the perpetrators, but - allegedly - our soldiers.

Canada combat, Great Britain, Australia and Poland, the terrorists in Afghanistan aggressive. The U.S. has with General McChrystal, a prominent military, whose ability to compete against the reality-resistant president but has yet to prove. Germany, however, has - recently slightly modified - rules of engagement, the tracking, tracing and killing of al Qaeda and Taliban virtually impossible . Make Instead of cheap electioneering would now and then a spot desirable, showing the flogging of a 17 year old who committed the crime to see a man or the stoning of a woman because she was raped but was able to muster less than four male witnesses or the execution in the front 2001 built with EU funds stadium in Kabul or the removal of the head of defenseless civilians by al Qaeda killers and - but that could slow fatiguing to some Sedler - something 9/11-Material. The majority of Germans do not care what to Taliban and al Qaeda with unarmed people. Or whether Islamofascist mullahs in neighboring Iran on the way to nuclear weapon, they could sell terrorists.

But to paint this country at every turn is the face of the "neoliberal" monster on the wall. In a country with our history. Me sick.
There is no "war in Afghanistan." There is a fundamental conflict with Islamofascism. And that ideology has no boundaries, as a glance in the Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, in the Gaza Strip, or to Hezbollah makes clear.

celebrated as the American left in the spring of 1975, the American withdrawal from Vietnam and Cambodia, said the former Cambodian prime minister, Sirik Matak a letter to U.S. Ambassador John Gunther Dean, mit dem er dessen Angebot seiner Evakuierung ablehnte.

Dear Excellency and friend,

I thank you very sincerely for your letter and for your offer to transport me towards freedom. I cannot, alas, leave in such a cowardly fashion. As for you and in particular for your great country, I never believed for a moment that you would have this sentiment of abandoning a people which has chosen liberty. You have refused us your protection and we can do nothing about it. You leave us and it is my wish that you and your country will find happiness under the sky. But mark it well that, if I shall die here on the spot and in my country that I love, it is too bad because we are all born and must die one day. I have only committed the mistake of believing in you, the Americans.

Please accept, Excellency, my dear friend, my faithful and friendly sentiments.

Sirik Matak.

The Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh a few days later. Sirik Matak was executed, shot in the abdomen and are left without medical assistance. It took three days before he died. Between one and two million Cambodians were murdered by the Khmer Rouge in the following years. One result of American weakness.

And the weakness of the West, it is also the motivation for the recruitment of jihadists and their terror attacks. The withdrawal from Beirut in 1983 after the bombing of the Iranian-sponsored Hezbollah on the U.S. base and from Somalia in 1993 after "Black Hawk Down."

believe the jihadists, they would have caused the collapse of the Soviet Union by their defeat in Afghanistan. What would a withdrawal of NATO on myths and legends entail?

There is war in Afghanistan and I would finally hear from a German politician: "There is war and we are there to win,"

Where then, however, the question would be entirely justified, "if the federal government is not a little over if it wants to defeat the Taliban, while the Berlin police will not even finished with the Autonomous in the city. "

© Joachim Nikolaus Steinhöfel 2009