In Afghanistan the Taliban are not very happy …
Damato's Scratches after Conte's words and wishes on the Taliban
The president of the 5 Stars Giuseppe Conte may have felt displaced by the news from Afghanistan, where the Taliban are proving to be less "relaxing", to say the least, than the sensations he felt at first , until the manifesto was written who have lost their fur but not their vice. Or to have the former Grillina deputy Emanuela Del Re, Commissioner of the European Union in the Sahel, tell Il Foglio that those bearded gentlemen have become "more dangerous" now that "they have learned a lot from our presence and from our work and are moving easily on a global level ".
The pentastellato group leader in the Senate Ettore Licheri, who remained alongside the former prime minister even in moments of greatest tension with Grillo, who had dismissed him as incompetent, said that Conte was "misinterpreted" in the proposal for a "close dialogue ”With the new masters of Kabul. And he assured that even if they wanted to "talk" with the Taliban, as "with all regimes", the Grillini now feel, after the movement's initial crushes, "Europeanists and Atlanticists".
However, if you read what you don't like to hear but the unofficial newspaper of the former prime minister, Il Fatto Quotidiano , appears more and more, the doubt arises that Senator Licheri is not a credible spokesperson for Conte. Listen to what Marco Travaglio wrote today in his editorial defending the same Conte from the criticisms that rained down on him even under the five stars: "Who in Europe whines because Beijing and / or Moscow are eating Kabul should do something more cunning than sulking at Taliban: like breaking free from the US, which dumped us beautifully (Biden never mentions the EU and NATO), and offering them something in exchange for less brutal humanitarian and political corridors than 20 years ago ”.
With a clarity that is therefore always appreciable with respect to ambiguous or hypocritical phrases, the director of the Fatto Quotidiano believes he is interpreting Conte by attributing to him the availability of some "unmarking" from the United States. Which is the exact opposite of the line set out and followed by Prime Minister Mario Draghi, envisaging and working for a common response of the G7 and the G20, which is also the Italian presidency at the moment, to the problems that arose with the withdrawal of Western troops from Afghanistan and the "victory" boasted by the Taliban.
In the same editorial office of the Fatto Quotidiano , on the other hand, some doubts are felt at least at a satirical level about the way in which Conte posed the Afghan question. In Mario Natangelo's front page cartoon, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, wrapped in a burqa, asks Conte why he wants to reduce him in that way by negotiating with the Taliban. And we hear the reply: "The less you see yourself, the better". No less pungent, Stefano Rolli on Secolo XIX thus makes an alleged countian comment on the news that the Taliban are shooting people: “A moderate change compared to beheading”.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/in-afghanistan-i-talebani-sono-poco-contiani/ on Sat, 21 Aug 2021 06:45:00 +0000.