- (April 2007)
Romano Prodi, Talibano.
The government of Romano Prodi is determined to remind the world that
Italy invented some of the worst ideas of the last century (such as the
mafia and fascism). As the world (or, at least, the democratic world) tries
to find a degree of unity to fight terrorism, Prodi broke ranks with everybody
and decided to unilaterally exchange prisoners in order to release an Italian
journalist detained by the Taliban.
Prodi and his foreign minister defended themselves claiming that they were
just trying to save a human life, and ignored the fact that the Afghan man
working with the Italian journalist was immediately executed by the Taliban.
Obviously they think that an Italian is worth more than an Afghan.
Needless to say, this act emboldened the Taliban who are now threatening to
kill some French hostages. In turn this is creating problems for the Afghan
government, that pledged not to trade any more prisoners but will be seen
by the French has having treated the Italians with more deference than the
French.
The Italian government has always been paying ransoms to kidnappers. Those
ransoms have been used by the kidnappers to buy more weapons and threaten
more lives. All in all, nobody helped kill innocents like the Italians did.
Romano Prodi and his foreign minister should be indicted in Afghanistan of
collusion with the terrorists, extradited to Afghanistan and tried by
a popular Afghan jury for helping the Taliban.
Note of July 2007: 23 South Koreans were kidnapped in july 2007. Encouraged
by the case of the Italian reporter, the kidnappers simply asked a bigger
prisoner exchange.
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