"The purpose of the war is not to die for one's own country but to ensure that the other bastard dies from his". And we are at war. And to combat fundamentalism, who knows how useful it would have been to have one of the greatest military strategists in history, George Patton, still alive.
Beyond the historical references, the one that will go down in history as the September 11 in Paris, confirms once again the state of war, declared and persistent, in which the civilized West finds itself (when in reality we know that the terrorist episode does not is localized). A concept to be taken universally, the latter, because the victims of terror have equal dignity in every part of the world.
The civilized world has returned to chaos this night. The terrorists, whose dynamics will be known in the coming hours, hit the symbols of the West: a theater, a stadium. They hit the examples that characterize the civilized West compared to the caves of Afghanistan, such as restaurants, pubs. Planning therefore, in striking the heart of one of the most beautiful world capitals and instilling fear, a fundamental component. And to say that just before the world was shocked by Parisian blood, many already began to raise moral and legal questions about the violated rights of the executioner, probably eliminated a few hours ago by a drone. Here then, a certain Western attitude, despite the barbarity of an individual who loved to behead the helpless, returned in his absurd hyperbole: "violated John's rights". Perhaps, Dostoevsky, seeing the images of last night, would have set aside some of his splendid aphorisms about compassion.
The problem is one: we are at war. The negotiations have failed, so it would be appropriate to behave and think like a country at war. That Paris had returned to the top of the list after sending the De Gaulle for the fight against Isis, there was little doubt. Instead, the relatively short timeframe between one attack and another is surprising.
That "red-alpha" plan, taken last night after the attacks, in fact strengthens the country by granting maximum powers to the main office in France, which decides autonomously by merely informing. It is a security protocol that provides for the use of all military resources to protect sensitive places, react in force in asymmetric contexts and close borders. A sort of self-protection of the State.
Unfortunately, those hoping for a speech at the United Nations in al-Baghdadi will have to change their minds. Or this is the hope, considering that other crazy criminals in history have sat down at the negotiating table. But we are at war, we have been for years. And certainly, one cannot hope that the war will not reach us just because we are fighting thousands of miles away. Shocked world, a few hours ago.
Paris pours blood. Who knows what they will have felt how many, having left home to spend a few hours in joy, have seen an automatic weapon aimed at the heart. Terrible just thinking about it. But the exceptional nature of a terrorist event, understood as such by the West, represents normality for fundamentalists.
Until when will tolerance to the bitter end hide our weakness? Until when, the exasperated concept of Christianity will have to save them from the armed response of the West? Because the war is done with all the trappings and to win or not. And if we decide not to do it, we should turn off the TV and think about our home business. But they told us that we must "save" the world.
The Parisian massacres, shocked world. Yet few remember that torture, mass murder, rapes, represent the classic high penalties of those macabre religious courts every day. Everyday. Few remember that a woman, under the banner of ISIS, is buried alive if she leaves home without a man. This is their ideal of freedom.
Il Executioner should have been eliminated near a square, the same used by fundamentalists for public executions. The world is shocked by Paris, because of the ruthlessness of the terrorists, but it is wrong. It is not brutality, that seen last night, but it is modus operandi. Congenital, instilled, acquired, indoctrinated. Do you think that while machine-gunned civilians dressed in suits, some of the terrorists felt pity or perhaps a conscience? No. Dazzled by that distorted idea of paradise, they proceeded as if nothing had happened, grown up in that barbarous context they call property. And we are certain that someone, while blood was wetting the streets of Paris, will also have thought that these terrorists would have deserved integration or compassion, in one of the countries where integration is at the highest levels and where there is a body, The Foreign Legion, which has made a trademark of multiraciality.
We call them terrorists. That ideological extremism that prefers terror to upset the consciences of the free world, that systematic weapon that knows no borders. And it will only be a probabilistic question before the terrorists attack Italy. Not seeing ourselves committed to dropping bombs will not save us beyond what the rhetoric of bureaucrats can affirm. What will they hit? The people, no doubt.
How much time will pass before our churches start to blow up and how long will we have to wait before weeding out this plague? Who knows. If they really did, it would create a sort of crusade, but they are far too intelligent (the hand that commands them, not the material executors) to avoid going up to that level. But the people, that is. That can be struck, perhaps while relaxing, perhaps in a square where many do not know what the Burqa.
Integration. But have we ever wondered if they want to be integrated and to what extent the compromise should arrive to mediate the parties? How much more will we have to try to integrate those fanatics who are indifferent to human sacredness? How many more lives will be broken in the meantime? The free world has taken on the role of exporting "democracy", not wondering if the recipients wanted it. The civilized world has become a champion of the Middle East (just to give an example), not wondering if the latter wanted new heroes. And one day, it will be up to Italy, a country where migrants continue to arrive, and where, at times, acceptance conceals economic interests. Who knows.
Today we mourn the victims of France, we should tremble at the thought of future Italian victims. Because it will only be a time issue, sooner or later bombs will start to explode from us too. Only then, perhaps, will we understand that we are at war.
