. .. What to Mentor in the body and voice
resemblance, the great goddess of Athens.
Odyssey, Book XXIV
The history and symbolism of Greek mythology are studied with great attention to military schools around the world, in fact the dynamics that affect conflict are the same for millennia. To win on the battlefield are still needed, the destructive force of Ares combined intervention of Athena, whose cunning is essential to win the peace.
Athena is not only the goddess of wisdom who is credited with the invention of many of the techniques that men exploit to improve the quality of life, but is also the goddess of war, dedicated to influence more subtle and complex business of war as strategy, training el ' intelligence.
The goddess also has the ability to change appearance depending on who wants to help in its victorious path, for example, turns to Mentor to give courage to Telemachus, and then encourage it in the last cunning and violent scenes Odyssey.
Ulysses, for those who do not remember, before leaving for the Trojan War has entrusted the education of his son Telemachus to Mentor, King of Tafi, the population of the Aegean that mythology tells us consists of thieves and pirates.
These aspects of Hellenic mythology has certainly inspired people, the Pentagon has developed the training the Afghan army by the Department of OMLT (Operational Mentoring Liaison Team), which has become the main instrument the commitment of the ISAF coalition. There is probably a link between the cunning of Tafi and the tribal mentality of that area of \u200b\u200bAsia that sees the deception and violating the word a positive quality. It is a mindset rooted and completely different from the West, but that should not be rejected a priori, but considered very carefully as teaches the history of the conflicts that for three centuries there have been over these territories .
Italy is not in Afghanistan to the personal whim of some minister warmonger, but to normalize - along with 47 other states on the 201 that make up the political geography of the planet - the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan with the full backing of our Parliament and the UN on an international warrant.
Normalize a word is bureaucratic and not very pretty, but it helps to remember that after 15 years of theocracy Taliban Afghanistan in 2002 had a literacy rate of less than 5% and was in last place, worldwide, in all indices on health, respect for civil rights, equal opportunity, religious and ethnic tolerance, life expectancy, economic development and in first place in regard to violence and corruption.
The Afghanistan we removed the Taliban is also the place where almost a million people to survive, they are still more or less involved in opium cultivation.
The proceeds are used to fund Islamic fundamentalism has few but very clear objectives writes Abu Hamza al-Muhajir proclaimed leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq n el his book " Power belongs only to Allah." The text is translated into Italian by Imam Carmagnola and published on its website :
" Oh Muslim monotheists, oh Mujahideen across the world ... We announce today the end of a stage of Jihad and 'beginning of a new important phase, inaugurating the project of the establishment of the Islamic Caliphate, to restore Islam's glory.
Oh monotheists ... Proclaim the Good News ... By Allah, we do not rest from Jihad that once the shade of the trees of Rome, after having blown up the House of impure, called the White House. "
For ' Islamic fundamentalism history stopped in 1683, when he began the inexorable decline of the Ottoman Empire finally disappeared in 1922.
incredible coincidence has it that on September 11, 1683 The Battle of Vienna - a city defined by the Muslims "The Golden Apple" - 65 000 battle in which Christians had the better of more than 200 000 Muslims who fled pursued by the cavalry of John III Sobieski, king of Poland.
The Battle of Vienna in the West is now almost forgotten, while Islamic fundamentalism seems to be a wound still open and continues to fuel hatred against the West fundamentalist.
This varied background helps us better understand the role that mentors have in Afghanistan today.
Antonello Tiracchia
( in drafting Francesca Vinciguerra)
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