Germany has to make peace at the Hindu Kush
After ten years of German participation in the war in Afghanistan the chairpersons of the party DIE LINKE, Gesine Lötzsch and Klaus Ernst, and the chairman of the parliamentary group DIE LINKE in the Bundestag, Gregor Gysi, declare:
This war has to be stopped immediately! This is the only logical and humane conclusion drawn from ten years of war in Afghanistan, a war that has lasted longer than the Vietnam War. The justifications for the mission of the Bundeswehr have changed regularly. They have not been true in any case. The number of soldiers and military technology used has grown from month to month. The immediate withdrawal of the Bundeswehr, as demanded by the LINKE, would be a signal that this war is about to end.
Impressed by the majority of the population which demands the withdrawal of the Bundeswehr from Afghanistan, the German federal government feigns a readiness to do so. The federal government only talks about the withdrawal of combat units until 2014. One may wonder by now how many soldiers will then be declared non-members of combat units. In reality during a war such a distinction is not possible.
War as a means of politics, as legitimized by CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP and the Greens, is a useless and murderous instrument in every regard. The dying of Afghan civilians, of German and other soldiers has eventually come to an end.