It is of course more pleasant to set up a new Berlin office or to do something for a post in the future federal government than to talk about the failed Afghanistan mission.
Nevertheless, one wonders how it can be that first the defense politicians in the Bundestag and now the Foreign Minister canceled their participation in Kramp-Karrenbauer's Afghanistan balance sheet.
Do the MPs who sent German soldiers on an ultimately lost mission, in which 59 fell, really lack the time to discuss the lessons of the debacle?
Does Maas really need the presence of parliamentarians in order to think about possible omissions or misjudgments of his house?
The Afghanistan mission was one of Germany's most important foreign policy projects for over twenty years.
Its failure raises political and military questions that go well beyond the mission itself.
Basically, a strategy has been refuted in the Hindu Kush that served as a guide for an entire generation of Western politicians in the fight against terrorism.
The work-up cannot start early enough; it will require many more sessions if it is taken seriously.
Soldiers and citizens alike deserved it.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the Foreign Affairs and Defense Division of the country's political class has any interest in it.