The SPD leadership wants to start in 2011 with the withdrawal from Afghanistan. 2015, it should be terminated. Experts believe that this is populist. The base does not go fast enough.
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Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) to clarify on the Afghanistan conference of his party is an "honest debate"
Sigmar Gabriel, there is no effort to conceal his pride. The SPD chief apologizes to all those who "have found no place" in the lobby of the Willy-Brandt-Haus. It sounds pretty coquette: Who would have expected to be overwhelmed by such declarations, "" will be? 900 visitors have announced their participation. If you like, but should go to the fifth floor of the party headquarters. Up top of the Hans-Jochen Vogel Hall is a video screen.
Indeed, the Afghanistan conference of the SPD is well attended. As crowded as on Friday was the Willy-Brandt-Haus most recently on 27 September. At that time, Franz Muentefering, and Frank-Walter Stein Meier had to give the biggest defeat of the SPD in the post-war history. Today, the mood is tidier, although the issue is quite serious: It is about the deployment of the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan. More than five hours discussing the comrades and external experts on war and peace.
Gabriel referenced in his speech, the central idea of the 13-page position paper, which he co-authored with Group Chief Stein Meier. Many passages he reads from the manuscript. Gabriel, who else feels like to associate freely and boldly, to foreign policy, not as safe as in the labor market. Several weeks ago, he reportedly admitted in an interview that he had formed in the Afghanistan question, no conclusive results.
