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Gianni Pardo - For sixty years, Europe is not involved in a war that concerns him personally. For a long time has therefore been thought that the war has been excluded from history. This has greatly influenced the warlike attitude of the Europeans. Even if you tried to make up for their failure with the development of military technology can not forget what he said an admiral a hundred years ago: "When I was young I had wooden ships and iron men; today ships were made of iron ... "
The failure of the military spirit - among the leading causes of the fall of the Roman Empire - was encouraged by governments, according to public opinion, have done nothing but cut funding for defense, the owner has been reduced, the lever has been abolished, and the army has become a decorative body that can drive up to ten thousand soldiers abroad and useful only for military parades. If tomorrow countries such as Germany or France had to face a war should start from scratch. Particularly with regard to men.
All this is known and it would be tragic if it was just military problems. Once a war breaks out, the military spirit learned in days rather than months. As he once told a Frenchman who had been sent to Algeria: "Parties to civil dispute, but when you see a buddy die next, you're ready to kill."

The problem is not only military. The most worrying phenomenon is a kind of resignation Civil. The Italians, for example that we know a lot, no longer feel or Christians or patriots or citizens. They do not feel even the Italians. Too despise Italy to accept to be part of a community. They do not believe that they will end prevail and indeed the best for not embarking on a strenuous competition prefer egalitarianism merit. The permanent job adventure of self-employment. They prefer the envy of the rich admiration for those who have enriched. They prefer short, the utopian left. But what is worse, they do not feel deserving of respect. Understand and approve the Muslim who claims its traditions and respect for his religion, but do not think even for a moment to defend their traditions: religion Italian and Italian way of life. If a Muslim wants - he came in for a guest and public buildings - that only a midwife, not an obstetrician, handle the birth of his wife, everyone is ready to justify it. The idea of \u200b\u200bsending him to the devil, and to answer hard-nosed, if not satisfied with the service can return to his home, did not come to anyone.

The crisis is not only military, in fact. It is a crisis of rationality. The absence of war has led to a derailment of the brain which is twisted out most of the evidence of the past. A time those who work deserve to hunger, today even those who do not want to work have more or less the same advantages as those who break their backs. Once a student who was not a donkey and was rejected, now the donkey is a young man in trouble on that bend thoughtful and caring teachers and psychologists, not to mention families. With the obvious conclusion that deserves encouragement, and that meanwhile it is appropriate to promote it. The examples are useless. It is in all directions that realism is no longer fashionable, and indeed society looks with disdain the unwary who dared to formulate conclusions.

This collective madness of Europe and North America does not belong to other continents. Other countries, perhaps because trained by hunger, the hardness of their customs and cultural development of their child, they retain strong connections with the more brutal reality. This, as well as keep them away from dementia, it gives them an unexpected ability to compete. They are willing to kill and to kill, Europe is not willing to kill even in self-defense. They are willing to speak out, even with absurd claims, Europe is not prepared to respond and if he does is apologize. Even the misery of poor countries instead of their daughter and their inability to produce excess births.
While most developed countries and in all civil retreat field, apologizing to exist, the other forward, justified by our own ideas. If the Israeli army enters Gaza to prevent rocket attacks against unarmed citizens and killed civilians in the fighting, Israel is to blame and no one mentions the fact that neither is acting in self defense. Nor is that while it searches for terrorists, the terrorists are trying to hit the innocent. Why all this? The answer is simple: Israel, as a civilization, it is Europe, not the Palestinians: So the Palestinians and Israel have reason, however, still wrong. Even when acting in self defense.

A similar decline of civilization is not cured with Europe or making speeches before a mirror. There a mirror big enough. But Europe will recover, all of a sudden, when the story - hopefully as late as possible - the plunge in need and risk of death. In that case, or find again the path of force and realism, or succumb to a new Odoacer, less civil than that deposed Romulus Augustus.

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World hunger, the FAO strabismus

Livio Caputo - He is a regular event: this year, the annual report of the FAO invites us to sprinkle ashes on their heads because, Despite the commitments made in 1996 by 185 Heads of State and Government, we can not to reduce the number of people across the globe who suffer from hunger, 850 million were in the early nineties, 854 million today. The goal set to reduce them to 415 million in 2015, therefore, becomes increasingly unrealistic, because, according to the agency's director Jacques Diouf, "lacking the political will to mobilize more resources in the world has the benefit of the hungry." Other Third World worse, accusing Western governments collectively, multinational companies and various exploiters.
The persistence of almost a billion hungry people is undoubtedly a tragedy of enormous proportions, but it is unacceptable to attribute the responsibility of only the selfishness of rich countries. First, FAO would be well advised to look at home, because it has always been considered one of the UN agencies less efficient, n bandwagon bureaucracy that spends more than half of its resources for its administrative needs. Secondly, just look closely at the map accompanying the report, which showed clearly which countries have made progress and what steps back to see who the real culprits. We can cite at least four sensational cases, which suggests that the origin of evil is not so much the failure of international aid, as the folly of governments that squander their considerable resources, often without regard for the welfare of their citizens.
Example 1. The only condition South America that shows a "serious deterioration" that is, an increase in malnutrition exceeds 50%, Venezuela is the fourth largest producer of crude oil, which President Chavez is spending billions of petrodollars to build a global alliance against Washington and establish itself as the 'heir to Fidel Castro. If instead of distributing subsidies to half the world would invest this money in the fight against malnutrition, the problem resolves itself in Venezuela.
Example 2. In an Asia that, overall, progress is stunning, with a reduction in the number of hungry people by almost 50 percent in India, both in China, the evolution of North Korea was similar to that of Venezuela: a bit 'because of the total inefficiency of the communist system, a bit 'for the extravagant expenditure on the military culminated a few weeks ago in the first nuclear test, the number of hungry people has nearly doubled and made two million famine victims.
Even today, the population is highly dependent on food aid it receives from China and South Korea but the fault lies in our alleged greed in grant aid, or the dictator Kim Jong Il?
Example 3. When it was part of the British Empire, and in the fourteen years of independence under a government of the settlers, Zimbabwe was one of the major exporters of agricultural products in Africa and all had enough to eat. In 25 years, President Mugabe has ruined.
The main reason, if not unique, this dramatic decline is the expropriation and expulsion of white farmers. Result: malnutrition has increased by almost 50 per cent and the population is dependent on international charity.
Example 4. Sudan is potentially one of the richest countries in Africa, and now that he has also discovered oil, which has more substantial financial resources. But among the twenty-year civil war between the Arab north and black populations of the South (now finally resolved) and the recent tragedy in Darfur with its two million refugees, has increased dramatically its number of hungry people.
FAO rightly identifies the epicenter of the crisis in Africa, where the number of undernourished people in the past ten years is 169 to 206 million, but the fault is not so much the international community, as the frequency of wars, the irresponsibility of the government and also of the growing rejection of the people working the land, even groped for the adventure in Europe as illegal immigrants. It is absurd that, even with its deserts, its tropical forests, its invasions of locusts and its chronic drought, a vast continent like Africa is unable to feed its population. You spend money to introduce modern farming techniques, are used more, if necessary, the GM products, there will be increased to search for water, to reform the archaic law of land ownership, but it is recognized that first touches in the first place for the African population, and especially to African leaders, to meet the situation. Point the finger at Western governments (including, in the front row, Italy) who have not lived up to their promises of aid to allocate increasing percentages of their GDP is perhaps politically incorrect, but it provides a distorted picture of reality. For many countries where hunger is a problem, more money would lead, at present, only more corruption and even more weapons.

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