http://nachrichten.t-online.de/koehlers-umstrittene-aeusserungen-zum-afghanistan-einsatz/id_41842208/index
Was the resignation of President Köhler justified or not? The discussion is more than controversial, of "desertion" to "He's right!" ranging opinions about it.
What was happening? After an Afghanistan visit had Keller in a radio interview, said, inter alia, quote:
"My assessment is that overall we are on the way, but also to understand the breadth of society, a country our size with this trade orientation and with it foreign trade dependence also needs to know that in case of doubt, in case of emergency and military use is necessary to protect our interests, such as free trade ways to prevent, for example, all the regional instability that hit back negative then also to our chances of us trading to secure jobs and income. "
this he had to plug in a lot of blows. Even from the camp of his sponsors was no support, and silence could be in this case may be seen as such.
Because of the criticism for the above cited statement is Horst Köhler resigned yesterday to, as he says, the office not to damage it.
There are two truths: the public and the actual tellable
For me it is questionable whether it even wars are to be performed for any other reason than out of economic interests. Of course you can not tell the public. It must rather be attuned to war policy by naming a plausible-sounding reasons.
was long thought to that end, Religion: Few things are as likely to raise people against each other, like the "fact" that the respondent prays to the "wrong" God.
Thanks to the Enlightenment does this principle we only rudimentary. Still, one can assume that would be heard against the Afghanistan mission a lot more criticism if it would be a Christian country. But only at the margins.
Another driving force to prepare people for war, is the national pride. "People without space". Works for us but fortunately nothing more.
Will we have the religious or chauvinistic arguments is not so good, it needs other reasons. Security!, Yes it is. "The security of Germany is defended in the Hindu Kush". Exactly. Have not the accomplices of Osama bin Laden (which is how the religious switch yet) on 11.09.2001 excellent Symbols provided that justify any action? Take a few human rights for sprinkling: Yes, we provide for the enforcement of human rights in the attacked country, even for the rights of women. Although we are interested in the other countries of the world otherwise a shit, but we need to talk about it's not: The public reason for war is found. In Afghanistan that also store large oil reserves, because we did not mention. And then only to assert in order that these natural resources to rebuild the ravaged country would benefit.
No, there are probably other reasons for war, never as economic. And precisely for this reason try leaders of all countries, people, both good at the bar of religion, national pride, fear of life or any utopias keep: You need these psychological ground switch, they are able to pass at will, to concur the people on their economic war. Or someone would be willing for any business interests that he has not much to risk his life?
Horst Koehler's mistake was to tell the public and customizable to confuse the real truth. He chatted it were out of school, which is a political mortal sin. Whether it was right to draw the consequences of withdrawal? been
Well, the resignation should in fact be his own decision, I find it objectively wrong. But whether it actually did so, I dare not to judge ...
