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Christine Buchholz

NATO Strategy For Afghanistan Has Failed

Today the movie “Auslandseinsatz” (foreign assignment) by Till Endemann will be shown on public television. To this Christine Buchholz, member of the Executive Board of the party DIE LINKE declares:

 

This movie tells the story of a group of German Bundeswehr soldiers in Afghanistan. It opens the black box of the ISAF mission and discloses the picture of a war that is not to win. The movie depicts the discrepancies within the military. At the beginning, the soldiers believe their mission in Afghanistan is to help the people. But they soon realize their true mission is ISAF counter-insurgency. The unity of the Bundeswehr gets cracks. If the situation in “Auslandseinsatz” is only halfway realistic, the Bundeswehr is only partly operational.  And that is good. The NATO strategy has failed. An immediate withdrawal from this war is overdue.