Posted AT 2:36 AM EST on 16/10/07
German lessons: the Afghan conundrum
Last Friday, the German parliament extended the Bundeswehr's 3,100-strong ISAF mandate in Afghanistan for another year. It is revealing that a military deployment backed by more than two-thirds of all MPs is increasingly viewed by German public opinion as a lost-cause mission with little moral legitimacy. Surveys now indicate that two-thirds of all Germans favour a military withdrawal.
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