More troops from Italy

Italians must finally understand that sending more troops to Afghanistan is probably the only way to solve the conflict, writes the liberal conservative daily Corriere della Sera: "It may seem paradoxical to send more troops to Afghanistan today if we're just going to pull them out tomorrow. ... Nevertheless this is exactly the American president's strategy. ... It is a high-risk calculation to which the Atlantic Alliance must react quickly, starting with the scatterbrained Italians. Yes, we shed honest tears over our fallen soldiers, but we also have the habit of quickly forgetting the war that killed them. ... It is no longer possible to say we have done our utmost. It is impermissible that we act alone or do less than the others. And if someone could explain that to the Italians perhaps public opinion would finally get a better understanding of why we're in Afghanistan at all."

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