The lead editorial in today's DN is an excellent and well-written rebuttal to the group of five hundred who have called for Sweden to leave Afghanistan. The article points out, quite clearly, the need for a continued international presence in Afghanistan and the morally bankrupt view of those who argue against foreign military interventions of the type in Afghanistan and in the wider struggle for human rights and democracy in the world.
It is pleasing to see a major newspaper defend (Sweden's largest morning daily) what is a noble mission on the part of the world community.
It also exposes the fatuousness and fecklessness of the so-called enlightened intellectuals of the far left. Their calls for solidarity and justice ring truly hollow when calling for the removal of forces that guarantee the rebuilding and promise of a nation wracked by conflict and previously subjected to an inhumane oppression by religious fanatics. The fact that those who claim to be the friends of the third world, of women, of homosexuals and others repressed around the world would deny the freedoms and rights they enjoy in an attempt to score cheap political points against the US and the west is beyond contempt.
Their treason towards the ideals of the enlightenment and the true anti-fascistic left is one that should be condemned by all those who believe in solidarity, social justice, human rights and democracy.
That it takes a center-right newspaper to do what the center-left should be doing is an insult to all of us who believe in social democracy and progressive values.
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