I just read that Horst Köhler has resigned. After having worked on this post yesterday, I was going to put some finishing touches to it today. Due to current developments, however, I am now publishing it in its original form.
Before departing for Afghanistan in the last week of May, our Federal President, Horst Köhler, gave an interview. In it, he voiced his opinions on military intervention abroad by our Federal Armed Forces.
And he said military intervention abroad is necessary, because
… for a country as big as ours with the respective foreign trade orientation, military intervention, too, is necessary in order to keep trade routes open …
and also, because
… we have to prevent regional instability, which would reflect negatively on our chances, whereby we are helping commerce, as well as the employment and the income situations…
Now he is being criticized for his words by the opposition and the media. And the government said he was talking about our military presence in Somalia, although there was no doubt he had been asked about Afghanistan.
I believe Horst Köhler simply had a fit of civil courage and said the truth.
As I see it, the truth is that the military involvement of the German Armed Forces in Afghanistan, of course, only ostensibly serves humanistic ideals and defends human and female rights (which, incidentally, will not be possible in that century, anyway). Neither do I believe we can succeed in our fight against terrorism (the way it is being done will certainly not be a success. On the contrary: we are going to achieve the opposite).
Afghanistan is probably just one of many arenas where a highly complex economic war is waged. A war in which the privileged part of the world tries to conserve its position through a very strange distribution of tasks.
My comment is: now for a change someone spoke the truth – and then he is met by criticism to such a degree that he wants to resign. …
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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