Germany lacks strategy in fight against Daesh: Analyst

Press TV has interviewed Christoph R. Hörstel, federal chairman of Deutsche Mitte Party in Berlin, about German lawmakers endorsing a plan for undertaking a non-combat military mission against the Daesh Takfiri group in Syria.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: How do you and your party feel about this?

Horstel: We strongly condemn this issue and this action by the federal government. First of all we made very clear that the Paris bombing and shootings were clear-cut sign of state involvement and terror management by the state and we understand that several secret services, Western secret services, including maybe MOSSAD, were part of this affair.

Then people in Germany, not only my party, people feel that there is a lack of strategy in fighting Daesh or IS or ISIL or ISIS and we do not have an exit strategy and in fact, how to say, are not sure what in fact we are really doing there because the US bombing on Daesh very often resulted in bombing Daesh with supplies. So we do not know exactly what the German troops will be used for but there is of course an initial idea that we will be involved in crimes.

Press TV: And I would imagine that the German government would defend itself by saying it needed to support France, the whole European unity and certainly after Paris attacks something needed to be done. How do you feel about such arguments?

Horstel: Well this is the way they argue all the time. Something needs to be done but if we look at the governing party, the Social Democrats and strong contradiction by two dozen of their members of parliament, it is very clear that this argument does not hold with everybody and nearly dozen members of CDU, of the Christian Democratic Union, as well who are not very much in favor of this issue and for that reason we cannot stick to the one point that we have to make, is that we are not clear how Daesh came into existence, how it could survive years and years of declared US bombing and Turkish bombing and how it is possible that they can sell oil and gas in such large numbers that they have become a quite wealthy state in fact and this is all unclear. Under these conditions it will be very bad to just send soldiers and send frigates and send Tornados even if it is non-combat it is useless and it has no very clear-cut objective.  

Press TV: And it is interesting because I am listening to your contextualizing of this case and I am wondering what you are saying is not heard much in mainstream media. Is this something do you think that the German people know?

Horstel: The Germans are in large numbers aware that our main media is lying to them all the time. The reason is that we have an influx of more than one million, what do we call them, are they migrants or are they refugees as the government says, we think these are migrants, they are forced migrants, they come in large numbers from Syria and it is part of NATO’s aggressive policy that has pushed these people to migrate even into Germany as I said by the number of more than one million right now this year and it will not end there. It may reach 1.2, 1.3, 1.5 million even this year and for the next year we are not sure and this means the people have become aware that the media is lying to them because they feel the influx of all these people and they know something is fishy about these guys because many of them have money, they have smart phones, they can move in taxis and that is very strange to them.

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