The West must help Tunisia

The attack on Tunisia must be for all the West, but especially for Europe and particularly for the countries of the northern shore of the Mediterranean, a clear signal to determine a will to action that goes beyond the speeches of circumstance. What we are talking about is the only country where democracy has taken root, democracy in the form hoped by all Western countries, arrived almost immediately to a stage of maturity thanks to an institutional evolution guaranteed by the preparation of the majority of the Tunisian people to a mutual respect of the parties competing for the democratic government. In Tunisia coexist formations religious moderate, who sit in parliament near formations lay and without the interference of the military, which guarantee the constitutional settlement not taking advantage of the monopoly of force. However, Tunisia is also one of the countries that provided one of the biggest foreign contingents to the army of the Islamic State, is the country which borders with Algeria and Libya, countries victim of Islamic fundamentalism, whose militias across the common border , they want to pollute and destabilize the only successful example of democracy in the Arab Spring. There are even versions do not agree on what was the real target of the terrorists: if it was really the oldest museum in the Arab world or the next parliament, where he was discussing a law against terrorism. In both cases, the scope of the attack was aimed to bring instability in a country where the balance Democrats are still fragile, but more and more essential, both for the same Tunisia, as is obvious, that for the European countries of the Mediterranean. Libya became a just war to overthrow a dictatorship, but then he left the country to himself, that he had no solid institutions to carry forward the democratic process is essential for the formation of the new state. It was a mistake practically equal to that made by the Americans in Iraq, who left was alone, without waiting for the stabilization required. Tunisia, for now, had been able to do alone, from the inside, the process of strengthening the new institutions become, however, a dangerous symbol for followers of religious radicalism. Despite the attack on the institutions still seem very strong, but it is clear that the country can not be left to itself, especially in the face of outside forces that aim to break the internal balance. If there is an appropriate time for the West to engage in first person, in respect of the only country where the state must not fall, can not be this. Must be sustained security of the country with a garrison of borders adequate, even through military partnerships, should be strengthened internal control, to prevent the fundamentalists in the country to do harm and should be supported a fragile economy, made even weaker hitting the major sector tourism. It is not an aid only for the country of Tunisia, but an investment for Western security. From a strategic point of view Tunisia safer, could then be the basis from which to operate against fundamentalist formations of North Africa, who are approaching more and more dangerously to the shores of the Mediterranean. Bring safely southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea is a priority now no longer be postponed and give up the one was stable and reliable would be a political suicide for the West. Conversely concretely help strengthen democracy and hence export it as a model to other states could be the winning project to stabilize the northern region of Africa, and then involve them in forms of collaboration towards greater integration equal. This development could be the best guarantee of political stability and an opportunity for mutual economic development. But for this we need a sacrifice initial recently, that determines a personal involvement of Western states with men and adequate means.