Respiration Of A Mammal Compared To Reptile

resentment soul devour


Joachim Steinhöfel


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