"They will teach my son how to educate them in Scieri those in Livorno!" It is a Pisan, the most rough and disgruntled type of the Tuscan, the stranger who listens with me on the radio of an anonymous bar, in these days of exodus , the motivations, according to the Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini - which is well known: it is NOT responsible for the issues of Defense and the armed forces -, to reintroduce the universal compulsory leverage.
"As a minister and as a father, I would like the duties to be restored in addition to the rights. I have a son of 15 years and sometimes, both for work and for fun, I put photos on Instagram. Yesterday I did it, from the Tremiti Islands, and the idiots never fail. I like the criticism, otherwise I would change my job. But there are those who wake up in the morning with the taste of insulting. Then, go and see and many have 13, 14, 15 years and then I confirm the fact that we do well to study the costs, the ways and times to evaluate if, how and when to reintroduce the military service a few months and the civil service for our boys. So at least you learn a bit 'of education that parents are not able to teach. "
The writer does not like the acid comment of the lord of Pisa, but the words of Salvini are not a little on the stomach. The owner of the Viminale, so catholic when it comes to harangue the crowds with rosaries and bibles in hand, rediscovers his Marxist past when some trolls prick the creature he had from the first of his three or four wife and / or companions: instead of focusing on family, for which the Catholic Church is torn off, it is better to expropriate the discards or potentials and entrust them to the expert hands of officers and non-commissioned officers, who are known to be wonderful nannies.
The former Italian League MEP and current Vice-President of the Council replied the only member of the Government entitled to talk about defense reforms: Minister Elisabetta Trenta, who defined the idea of returning to compulsory military service as "anachronistic", considering that the Italian armed forces of today are made up of professionals "and that, as such," have proved to be among the best in the world ... the lever was suspended not because the conscripts were not good, but because they could not more to be employed in complex operations and at risk, given that the possibility of being employed in operations also derives from training and the ability to operate in international contexts ". In short, the times of "cannon fodder" and the mass training of hundreds of miles of low-skilled recruits have ended: it makes no sense to go back to the past with the motivation to help families to educate their children: where it almost fails every day the school, Mr. Minister, the Armed Forces will not arrive. Ancient Napoleonic institution, made mandatory on the eve of the Great War and a protagonist in almost all the western countries until the fall of the Berlin Wall, today the old universal lever is no longer useful, except perhaps to lose, in all probability, the place of work to the eighteen year old or to the newly enrolled graduate student, to create the risk of new opacities in the expenditure of public funds by the Armed Forces and, ultimately, to overload the State accounts with costs of which, frankly, one does not feel the need.
(photo: Interior minister staff)
