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The Scratches of Damato
Those 250 deaths and injuries, civilians and military, caused by the attacks in Kabul during the departures of the Afghans protected by the Westerners, are already a heavy but unfortunately partial toll of this new phase of the tragedy in Afghanistan. That after twenty years of military occupation by Americans and allies is now a prisoner of an entirely internal conflict between the Taliban, with whom the United States has negotiated the withdrawal of its troops, and the Muslim extremists who consider them renouncers or traitors. It is no coincidence that the victims of the attacks also include the Taliban.
I know that I am about to make a comparison that is difficult to digest in our country, I do not know if more between the young or the elderly who have experienced certain passages in Italian history almost 50 years ago, but I do the same for frankness and honesty, even to cost of being mistaken for a fool, exaggerated and so on. Naturally given the due political and cultural proportions, the Taliban returned to Kabul after and, according to some, as a result of the controversial Doha agreements with the Americans, are a bit like the Italian Communists of fifty years ago, in fact. That they had passed from the so-called unfinished Resistance and / or from total alignment with the Soviet Union, in a strictly bipolar world at the time, to a position such as to recognize themselves protected by NATO, as the PCI secretary Enrico Berlinguer once said. And therefore to be able to negotiate with the Christian Democrats, and even with an Atlanticist like Ugo La Malfa, a stake in the government majority. Thus, not one but two Christian Democratic governments were born, both chaired by Giulio Andreotti and supported by the strongest Communist Party in the West: the first with abstention and the second with a vote of confidence.
Like the Taliban of today in Kabul, even without their machine guns around their necks, beards and everything else that is enough to scare, the Italian Communists of fifty years ago ran into the reaction of the terrorists of the Red Brigades and the like. , who accused them of becoming bourgeois and more or less surrendered to the enemy.
At least for a while the Italian Communists were able to resist the political and armed assault of their left-wing opponents, even exaggerating – for me – firmly, as happened in the case of the kidnapping of Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades. With whom, in order not to seem conditioned, the PCI denied any possibility of negotiating the release of the hostage. His position was paradoxically aggravated by the fact that he had carried out a decisive action for the agreements that had brought the Communists to the majority. Then, not by chance Moro died, they withdrew from the majority on their own, returning to the opposition, except to change ninth, symbol and so on a decade later, under the rubble of the Berlin Wall.
Now it is a question of understanding, returning to Kabul, whether it is more useful for Westerners to confuse the Taliban with the terrorists of the last few hours or to try to free them in some way from the conditioning of their opponents or competitors. It is an entirely political choice, to be made in my opinion more with the head than with the stomach, more with reason than with instinct. Frankly, the opinion gathered by the press with that front page title that says: "But terror will not stop the dialogue with the Taliban", preferably with a lowercase letter, does not seem to me to be frankly wrong.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/corsi-e-ricorsi-storici-su-isis-talebani-e-non-solo/ on Fri, 27 Aug 2021 06:14:58 +0000.