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Over the last year or so, the Spanish
actions towards belic events have gone from good, of course regarding half
the population of Spain, you can not please everyone, to the current one,
in which we just do not know what, how, or why are we doing, what we are
doing. You will ask yourself, well everything is always done for a reason,
either to favor some, for economic benefits, or others, well the point
is that since PSOE (socialist Spanish party) became the actual government
of Spain, our actions towards those kinds of events have turned to be rather
weird.
First of all after
the latest elections on 14 March, just three days after the bombings of
Madrid in which 200 people lost their lives to Islamic terrorists, the current
government blamed the previous government PP (popular party) for the terrorists
strike, and decided to retrieve the troops from Iraq, which had been one
of their campaign topics during those elections.
After this in a
meeting that the American secretary of defense Donald Rumsfed hold with
our minister of defense Bono, this one stated that the Americans should
not worry as this was just mere action to adopt what the Spanish society
wanted, and that we would go on supporting them. Just a few months after
that our president Zapatero encouraged all the other countries that held
troops in Iraq to retrieve their troops, and take the coward action already
taken by my country.
To finish with just
a few days ago 17 Spanish soldiers lost their lives when a Cougar helicopter
of the Spanish air forces crashed in the middle of the Afghanistan territory,
because as hard as it might be to understand the Spanish army can help in
places such as Kosovo, and Afghanistan but not in the country with most
terrorist activity of our days, Iraq.  Just yesterday 24 of our soldiers
(6 more than the ones who died) were sent to Afghanistan to replace the
loss, with the appropriate complain of the political party in the opposition
(PP) as if we are against fighting in Iraq, is not eloquent to send more
troops, but it is also not comprehensive to have them in other countries,
and that is basically our military policy nowadays.
In conclusion our
army can help some countries but not others, why? what are we up to? and
what kind of military policy are we maintaining? We do not know, and to be
sincere I doubt we will ever do so.
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