No to War! No More Soldiers!
On the government explanation of Afghanistan, states Christine Buchholz, member of the Executive Board of the Party DIE LINKE:
The national government speaks of a "new strategy" in Afghanistan. But they are selling old wine in new bottles and are sticking to the strategy they have had up until now.
The Government supports the unpopular and corrupt Karsai regime, subordinates the humanitarian help of the military logic, builds up the Afghani police and army as civil war militia, and sets off military insurgency combat.
The "new" is merely that there will be more of everything and gives the government an opportunity to officially concede that we now find ourselves in a war. With this, the legal wiggle room for soldiers in Afghanistan is broadened. More dead Afghanis and more dead German soldiers will be the result.
The doubling of the foreign aid is a cover-up of the government, in order to prime the population for the sending of more war troops. Medico International criticizes, with good reason, the government instrumentalization of the aid organizations for the military deployments. An effective civil reconstruction aid assumes the immediate removal of the German Armed Forces.
DIE LINKE rejects the Afghanistan–Strategy of the national government and calls for the action of the Peace Movement "Kein Soldat Mehr" (No More Soldiers) on February 20th. We remain with: The German Armed Forces must unconditionally and completely withdrawal within this year.