- It may be that my country is not exactly the world whole, it may be that in a world of limited resources, my survival does not involve the survival of someone else then that is my enemy. Maybe I was not able to absorb as all the pain and injustice throughout the world, because they are not omnipotent, in fact. Maybe.
But I'm not even completely impotent: for example, could be Italy: Libya then it would be a clearing not far from my house, where at the time of his grandfather had also planted some flag. I do that for ten years I sign on the calendar to remind me to cry for the Sept. 11, what I write on my address book the twenty-one, on the twenty-two, twenty-three on February? "Nothing," as Louis XVI on 7/14/1789?
So please put aside the controversy over who has the most mawkish kissed and embraced Gaddafi. They did it all, from Andreotti to Berlusconi, if the latter in particular gave us the feeling of having dropped his pants, this is not the moment to reproach him with a lack of style that is chronic. This is the time of the disaster, the moment you set aside our quarrels family out there because they are our neighbors, who cry, and burn alive.
If I were in Italy, I'd be a nation in crisis, which is a blood stagliuzzando essential services (health, education, public safety, justice), but still does not cut a strategic sector. Defense. We spend every year 2% of GDP , something like 24 thousand million euro : they are a lot of money. Here, in fact. Where am I taking them? Now there's a mad arsonist, a murderess stragista friend who is bombing a people closer to home: I should not intervene? I'm not speaking for a lot less in the past? Where are my ship, my jet, my men? In Central Asia, to teach democracy to the stones. But we are sure that it is still a priority?
And the European Union where it is? Because if I Italy I would have the nagging feeling of being treated a bit 'I treat you like Libya, the poor relation and that stupid contract a refugee camp in beautiful seashore. It is not should call the wilderness, you see that here or the Mediterranean or sinking all? Who is responsible, if not us? In ten years we could have a North African civil, democratic, exchanging its huge energy resources in exchange for food (and Europe should have in surplus) to build infrastructure that absorbs labor from Europe and Black Africa. Or we have the north coast of the Sahel, the port of despair, a huge Somalia plagued by religious and tribal strife or contracted band of pirates. Democrats of the Left, cynics right, or vice versa; leaguers, nationalists, Catholics, I ask everyone: what it should have, in the clearing not far from our house? It may be that the fate Antarctica and Haiti are not dependent on us, but we really let a madman killing our neighbors? Excuse me, I would setup a pacifist, but I can not help asking myself the question: If I do not need armed forces to intervene in situations like this, why do I need to ? So, in short, for what I pay?
If you are one of those who had good reasons for the war in Afghanistan or Iraq, then please, multiply those good reasons for a hundred, a thousand. Gaddafi has weapons of mass destruction: the Gaddafi is using now.
If the Libyans are then free themselves, the better for them, but that we will face with their new leaders? And if the murderess Instead he wins, should triumph over a wilderness of graves, we will shake hands at the next summit? Seriously is still realpolitik, but what's realistic in the idea that a fire in the clearing behind the house goes off if nothing had happened?
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