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[Otto]

This is all correct, Thomas, thank you.

But it is not true "that the people are overwhelmingly against it" -
in our last general elections 90% of the people who voted have voted
for political parties that stand for the Afghanistan-adventure. It
doesn't matter what thepeople say in the surveys, it only matters what
they do when they are going to the polls.

2009/12/6 Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>:
> As far as I know, it's more complicated than that. The colonel (Oberst) who
> called in the air strike, Georg Klein (incidentally also the name of an
> important German author who champions Pynchon, I take the opportunity to
> especially recommend Klein's novel 'Libidissi'), has not resigned but will
> be subject to a courtroom hearing. The minister who was responsible at the
> time of the air strike, which took place before the general elections, has
> resigned. For the other resignations, see
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/26/german-army-chief-resigns-afghanistan.
>
> These people have resigned i.e. been fired because relevant information was
> withheld. In the course of events, Germany's new defence ('Deutschlands
> Freiheit wird am Hindukusch verteidigt', errrm) minister has revised his
> evaluation of the calling-in of the air strike from 'adequate' to 'not
> adequate.'
>
> As I see it, the German elites desperately want to continue to take part in
> the Great Game 2.0. but the people are overwhelmingly against it. We'll see.
>
> Thomas
>
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