New Taliban Count?
Because the words of former Prime Minister Conte on the "close dialogue" with the Taliban are also causing the 5 Star Movement to be discussed
Unlike the domestic, i.e. national, affair of the reform of the criminal trial, although included like others in the recovery plan subject to the control of the European Union, which finances it with non-repayable loans and grants, the still fresh president of the 5 Stars Giuseppe Conte he did not manage to find a side in the Democratic Party on the Afghan question. And in addition he is also in the storm in his movement, where both the Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio have distanced themselves from his openings to the "relaxing" Taliban, with whom a " close and direct dialogue " would be possible. to specify that the new masters of Kabul must be " judged by facts, not by words ", both Beppe Grillo himself, the "guarantor" for life. Who beat the "yes men" and spoke of "dishonorable escape from Afghanistan ", "indelible stain" and so on.
The side of the Democratic Party failed with the pessimistic view of the situation in Kabul expressed by the secretary Enrico Letta, inviting everyone to "gear up for the worst". And in that all it is perhaps not wrong to understand the Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who has cautiously entrenched himself behind the European Union, the G7 and the G20 under the Italian presidency to define the approach with the new reality in Kabul but has shown himself already convinced that, although it ended somewhat in disorder, the military occupation by Western forces in twenty years has left "deep traces" in the "society" of that country. The Taliban will also have to take into account, perhaps they too have changed in two decades, even if the fear towards them is very much among the Afghans themselves, who hang themselves on the planes departing from Kabul or spread their children desperately among the arms of the foreign military at the edges of the runways. They are tragic images, like others coming from Afghanistan, which take the breath away from those who look at them and can at first glance accredit Enrico Letta's pessimism more than the optimism of Draghi and, this time, of the closest Count.
The latter was even able to count on the understanding not only of the usual Fatto Quotidiano , considered by some to be the "unofficial organ" of the former Prime Minister, but also of a habitually hostile newspaper such as Il Riformista.
In particular, in the Fatto Quotidiano alongside a headline against the hypocrisy of a negotiation that "is done but not said" it is not wrongly remembered, in truth, that to deal in one way or another with the Taliban are also the European Union, explicitly with the commissioner for security and international relations, the Spanish Borrell, and the G7. And the Americans have already done so, also agreeing with them the timing of the withdrawal of foreign troops from that country.
On the Riformista directed by Piero Sansonetti, who generally considers the 5 Star Movement a pernicious anomaly in Italian politics, they have distanced themselves from the “all against”, in red, a Count who “accidentally says half a good”. Which is a recognition perhaps destined to multiply the difficulties of the former Prime Minister in the movement of which he has just taken formal leadership with the intention perhaps of getting rid of the nickname "meantime", earned at Palazzo Chigi for a certain habit of postponing choices or have the Council of Ministers approve important measures with the formula "subject to agreements". They just reproached him with corrosive prose on the Sheet.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/conte-neo-talebano/ on Fri, 20 Aug 2021 06:19:50 +0000.