The day before yesterday the Italy of Values \u200b\u200bhas filed a motion in the Chamber of Deputies to demand the withdrawal of Italian troops from Afghanistan. The PD has requested to split the motion into two parts to the vote and then gave its best: on a vote has decided to abstain while the other voted against and that is even with the majority. You may then ask: Bersani & Co. which way they are? In words they want to withdraw, in fact, vote to leave our guys in hell! out of Afghanistan is essential and especially improcrastinabile, but Italy of Values is the only political force that seems to make real account. And you have to get out as soon as the presence of troops has not brought the expected results: unemployment is rampant, just think that the country has fallen to the world development index ranked 181 out of 182 countries; production opium has increased by 40 times , so that today represents 60 percent of GDP Afghanistan; life expectancy has plummeted to 44 years ; the rights gained by women in the early years of international intervention are largely disappeared, not only because the areas, more extensive, controlled by the Taliban are being denied, but especially because President Karzai does not seem to have neither the strength nor the interest to make the protection of these rights, a non-negotiable in the peace talks with the Taliban. And yet, over the past ten years, Afghanistan has become the country where has one of the highest rates of children and child soldiers , then children are even arrested if they violate military law and subjected to corporal punishment or even torture. They are on the agenda also disappearances of children linked to human trafficking . Afghanistan, finally, is the country that has recently climbed the sad ranks of infant mortality up to the first place: a in four children do not get to turn off the fifth candle of her life .
All of these are reliable data, not personal opinions. What more do we need to understand that this mission for our soldiers can no longer hide behind the facade of a peace mission? To understand that the war in Afghanistan is to all intents and purposes, where there is no space for humanitarian action of any kind? Not to mention the 35 Italian soldiers who have died since the beginning of the mission in 2004 ... maybe it's time to seriously consider or perhaps there is no time even to think. You have to go out of Afghanistan, now, really.
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