"Italy assures a financial and manpower undertaking committed to the training of Afghan forces...until now taken on by Italy in helping the security of that country...in accordance with the agreement signed by me with President Karzai on 26 January last."
It is no surprise that the Italian forces in Afghanistan are centred on Herat. Where else? The lovely city, the best carpets...
What is surprising (or perhaps more interesting than surprising) is their determination to stay after 2014.
It must be the proximity to all that oil and gas.
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Get fracking. Or is Italy deficient in shale?
Nowhere on Earth is deficient in shale, is it Dearieme? It's the extraction process; I can't remember how many tectonic plates are sliding around underneath Italy - a lot rather than one or two, certainly.
Also Italians are quite keen on messy, eco-destructive industries taking place elsewhere than on Italian territory - like wars they are profitable but should never be on home ground. It's that old, deep-rooted imperial tendency livened up by a nasty reminder in the first half of last century.
Never fight or frack on your own doorstep. Serve your interests somewhere else on someone else.
But is this an Italian or an EU decision/initiative?
Cynical? Moi?
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