Germany needs clarity on Afghanistan mission

In view of the international criticism prompted by the air strike ordered by the Germans in Kunduz the left-liberal daily Süddeutsche Zeitung contends that there is a lack of public debate on the Afghanistan mission in Germany: "Germany got itself mixed up in a war and thought it could muddle its way through it and out of it again - without clarity, without truth, without concrete ideas about the task, goal and end, without a fundamental discussion in parliament and in public. And without saying it expressly Germany has become a war party under US command. Now the German armed forces have to stand there and watch their US buddies accuse them of inhumanity after the mistake of Kunduz. This is the revenge on Germany's insincerity, which its friends see as humanitarian arrogance – and to which they are now reacting, almost like experts as it were, with the accusation of inhumanity."

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