From the Twin Towers to Kabul: the world of politics remembers the 20 years since the attacks on the Twin Towers. To invite party leaders and ministers to the meeting in Palazzo Giustiniani entitled “September 11, 20 years later” is Pierferdinando Casini, president of the Italian group of the Parliamentary Union, who defined that of Afghanistan “A sort of surrender of the West studded with contradictions and errors ».
«September 11th is the day of the apocalypse, the day of death. After 20 years, not having strengthened multilateral organizations remains the great limitation of these twenty years “, he declared in his speech Enrico Letta, leader of the Democratic Party. “If there is one thing we have learned in 20 years it is that the West is no longer global, it must have the aspiration to play a global role but must live together and learn to live together, invest, in coexistence with other major world players. “.
«We need to hurry up and involve everyone: the problem is not only in Afghanistan, the return of the Taliban is giving breath and violence to other fanaticisms. Hezbollah, Hamas and others ». This is the senco of the intervention of the leader of the League Matteo Salvini. “The more we retreat in the name of a misunderstood dialogue, the more we leave room for terrorism”
“Terrorism, as we also see today in Afghanistan, has not been eradicated. That of 11 September is a vulnus that was brought to the collective conscience of Westerners: then the longer war arrived, with the mission also decided by NATO ». Like this Giuseppe Conte, leader of the 5 Stars. «The reactions to the attack on the Towers had the aim of stabilizing the country, inspired by the construction of a system for a new state and a security apparatus that would guarantee control over the territory. Now it is easy to say that what has been done has failed, but it is simplistic to speak in this way. The costs in terms of human lives, even of our victims, have been enormous, even the economic ones have been monstrous for this conflict ».
“It is impossible to get rid of the apocalyptic images of the bloodiest attack ever, a rude awakening for the West”, echoed the leader of Fratelli d’Italia Giorgia Meloni. «In this context, the war in Afghanistan was born which had two major objectives: the first was the need to remove the cover of a state from terrorists, and this has been achieved. Then it served to put an end to the narrative of US military fragility. The mistakes in Iraq, in Iran, the Arab Springs and the war in Libya and Syria, have transformed a just disengagement into a disastrous and humiliating escape for all of us “.
«September 11th is a date that defines an event by itself and constitutes a turning point in history. Its relevance after two decades is there for all to see, “said the President of the Senate Elisabetta Casellati. “I was struck by the similarity between the bodies that fell from the Twin Towers and those of the Afghans who fell from aircraft trolleys in Kabul. After all this time, our impression is still that of finding ourselves asking the same questions, asking ourselves how to defend our freedoms and how to preserve the world based on fundamental rights ”.