(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
I sit and look at a black and white photo from the 1930 century: Four Norwegian soldiers stand straight up and down, looking into the camera, three of them with their wooden bicycles and the classic Krag-Jørgensen rifles over their shoulder.
I sit and look at this picture while hearing about the recent election in Afghanistan 20. August, about the record number of soldiers there, and plans to increase Norway's military efforts. And when I look again at the picture of the four Norwegian soldiers, I understand why the Norwegian authorities have such great faith in the efforts of their soldiers: When the Norwegian military department goes to action, the Taliban will fall like flies. They will simply laugh at each other…
Norway currently has around 500 soldiers in Afghanistan – the mountain country with 34 million people, many of them with backgrounds as guerrilla fighters who beat a great power such as the Soviet Union. Afghanistan is about twice as large as Norway in terms of area. The map shows that only mountain goats can get around. Mountain peaks at up to 7000 meters above sea level have their say.
In Ebba's spirit. When "our boys" have entered the mountain world, they not only receive support from tanks and heavier weapons. They are being tricked further and further into the landless country. Former propaganda minister Goebbels would (rightly) call the Taliban withdrawal tactically. But now it is we who should pull out before the carnage continues.
When the Americans attacked Iraq in 2003, Ebba Haslund (1917-2009), now the honorary member of the Norwegian Writers' Association, launched a signature campaign to protest. I signed and these words you are now reading are in Ebba's spirit: Out of Afghanistan!
The attack on Iraq was, as everyone knows, staged under the lie that the country had nuclear weapons. Oil was not mentioned. This is how the United States got about 150.000 soldiers to Afghanistan's neighboring countries without the world prostituting.
All countries that assist the United States with soldiers must expect to be approached by suicide bombers – they go straight to paradise. Our boys come home in plastic bags and end up in the cemetery.
The latest US opinion polls on Iraq and Afghanistan show that over half are now for extraction. In the UK too, there is now a majority to withdraw. But the Norwegians are going against the flow, a survey now in August shows that Norwegian support for the military adventure has increased to 57 percent since last year. In Norway, more and more people think we should stay. And many of our soldiers will be, forever and ever.
Hunger liner for sex. There have been elections in Afghanistan recently. The threats have hail. Those who dared to vote should have their fingertips cut off. The winner of this "democratic" election is said to be the incumbent president, Hamid Karzai. The politician who introduced a law that a woman can be starved for four days if the man does not get intercourse.
You talking about madness? What are we going to do in this country? Save those who live there? Introduce Norwegian morality laws? Or even invoke
Holy Olav?
Here, there are so great cultural differences that no solution seems clear. One would like to say like the troll: "Here the Gentile blood smells."
As most people know, the Afghan president relies on so-called warlords. These gentlemen have their own territory, and they jump where the hare jumps. Those who fan the carrot, not to mention the wallet, get them in party. These unreliable combat traps can quickly turn around and become deadly enemies. In this jumble, it is therefore that our soldiers are located. They fight, and what do they get? "Our boys" are in an area where the sun shines so it boils under the helmets. If one is not killed or mutilated, the idea of brain damage is no stranger.
New Vietnam. Who are our enemies in Afghanistan? The people are divided, and the different clans fight among themselves. What we are involved in is almost the slaughter of women and children. This is not an honorable war for Norway – it is for war, no matter what the Norwegian authorities call it. Officially, it is supposedly called hunting terrorists.
Germany these days has asked the US for a time of withdrawal. Very wise, we all know how the US stuck in Vietnam. In Afghanistan, they are about to go away, along with their allies.
No, come home while it's still time.
