Note the silence, the steps rhythmicthe tanned flag, the caressed coffin, the petrified face Ciampi. It is a ritual of pain that Italy shares in common: family members and friends present in the basilica, crowds of people accompanying coffin Along the way, thousands of unknown citizens who for hours, the night before, paraded in the Altare della Patria, far from the lights. highlighting.
And millions of people yesterday morning, via radio and TV, experienced the same thing present because they want to be there too. Nothing like this has ever happened: no facts, nothing tragedy our current history has had extraordinary power to turn national sadness into complex feelings pride, dignity, pride and a refusal to show off.
This is love homeland? Of course the sense of belonging, the need for unity, goes back to something that seems to have been lost in time. From the crater Nassiriya an unknown country has emerged, faced with the death of nineteen of its citizens, forgetting the usual divisions in political support, football and bell towers; a civilized country, which for once managed to overcome this complicated mixture humble yourself and the sense of inferiority that makes up much of our collective psychology; a serious country, which has not allowed itself to be trapped by the rhetoric of recent days large dose.
This Italy he did not change his opinion regarding the war and the opportunities of the Italian mission, he was not fascinated by the great mission raising the flagnot fall into the patriotic molasses of “we are all carabinieri, we are all soldiers”. He was shaken by emotions, but he did not forget the obligations and problems at hand future take us.
More or less like in ancient times end of the war in Iraqsixty percent of Italians declared themselves against the intervention and continue to consider it wrong conflict America wants. But at the same time, he felt his own more clearly identity. Three colors that appear on many windows, sometimes on the side flag for peacerepresents this widespread feeling: you can proudly Italian without this implying compliance with government decisions.
There is no warmongering, or the rise of nationalism in today’s collective behavior, only spontaneous and widespread emotions that idealize fall without engaging in the risky hyperbole that has defined our mortality “new Christian martyrs”.
It’s out of respect victim of the attackpreviously due to strategic and geopolitical considerations, which most of the respondents interviewed responded to opinion poll that one cannot leave Iraq: before a political disaster on the international stage, running away means running away betray who lost his life.
This state of mind is felt by majority and opposition politicians who, in their sober state, had largely complied with instructions to save it for “after.” controversy and questions. But the “after” has now arrived, with all its burden of uncertainty and ambiguity.
And it must be emphasized that being on the side democracy and fighting terrorism also means that politics must reinvent its role. It is important to try to involve countries, such as France and Germanywho oppose US strategy; it is urgent to change the struggle against Islamic fanaticism and its commitments Iraq Normalization a challenge for all Western countries. It’s a complex game, that too imperial cover-up in Iraq see with different eyes.
Italy must play it without delay and without delay subordinationaware of that respect the sacrifice of his soldiers he got it. The most serious mistake is utilize a sense of responsibility This has been demonstrated by the Italians and confused proof of their unity with acceptance of a policy.
Refers to the hasty ambiguity in intervention decision-making, in the belief that this is so peace missionDeputy Prime Minister Fini threw his hands forward: «Don’t let it be said tomorrow that they were sent war». But it appears that this misunderstanding does not help our infantrymen and carabinieri, just as the belief that one thing is enough is no shield for them. different styles so as not to be treated as colonialists like the Americans.
Currently no illusions are possible: nineteen coffins they show us that we are at war. We try to ensure that so much sacrifice and so much pain they are not in vain.
