A war in the wrong country

The daily Delo concludes that the controversial Nato strike in Kunduz province has exposed many contradictions in the Afghanistan war: "The strike has made it clear that the honest Afghans whom the West is supposed to 'stabilise' and 'democratise' with its military intervention are still dying on the battle fields after eight years - and perhaps in even greater numbers than before. The very same international community that undertook the bold task of political re-education through military operations after 9/11 has no real answer to the question of what should be done. If we were to click back eight years we would probably say that this is not at all surprising. … For in actual fact the attack was the crude settling of accounts of the military defence alliance with a sovereign state, and not simply the punishment of terrorists. And what's more it was obviously an attack on the wrong country. This is now clear to everyone (because of events in Pakistan)."

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