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In an interview with the newspaper Domani, the former premier and secretary of left-wing democrats Massimo D’Alema says that “the Western response to the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers had a military content, which has achieved some results.
But above all it had a strong political-cultural design: the idea that through the expansion of democracy in the Islamic world, antibodies capable of defeating anti-Western fundamentalism and terrorism would be built. This project has failed ”. But above all “not only with weapons, the idea that democracy can be exported has failed” and “the Arab Spring, which was the expansion of democracy in the wake of a popular movement, also failed. Cultural homologation does not work ”.
Then D’Alema underlines the fact that “the attack on the Twin Towers was not the work of the Taliban but of an Arab elite, mostly Saudi, which ended up in the mountains of Afghanistan because the Americans had brought it there, who had favored the creation of a movement of Islamic volunteers to fight against the Soviets ”therefore“ the political-military preparation of the fundamentalist camp was therefore made by the West, because the fundamentalists were the main allies in an Arab anti-communist and anti-socialist key ”. The former prime minister also claims that “the Taliban are a fundamentalist movement, violent and intolerable for their behavior against women and against minorities, but I think it is wrong to call them a terrorist group. Isis is a terrorist group, the Taliban are a political movement, like Hezbollah and Hamas. Calling them terrorists is nonsense “, so much so that” Americans have been talking to the Taliban continuously since 2018 “. D’Alema concludes: “It is obvious that this must also be done to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe and to try to exercise as much conditioning as possible.
Only here could a surreal debate like the one on the words of Giuseppe Conte develop. The real problem is how to talk to the Taliban without this implying a formal recognition of the legitimacy of their government ”.
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