Posted on 11/19/2015 7:27:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
When my newlywed wife and I took a bus from Istanbul to Munich in 1972, we were surprised to see that almost all of our fellow travelers were Turkish workmen. We discovered that Germans were looking for cheap labor, and the Turks were filling these spots.
We were young, naïve, and liberal, and we felt that the Germans were doing a good thing. We didn't stop to think how these Muslim fundamentalists would fit in with modern Munich. This was a couple of months before the Palestinians massacred the Israeli Olympic team.
The workers on our bus were not Palestinians. But when you import people who can't assimilate, they self-detonate.
So forty-three years later ISIS goes on a killing frenzy in Paris. And Merkel calls for tolerance after the jihadi attack.
Like feckless Obama, she says,"Let's give the terrorists the answer by living our values confidently." Easy for her to say when her values led to the deaths of over one hundred and twenty-nine innocent people. Also like Obama, she does not refer to the terrorists as Islamic.
When you don't call a spade a spade, you can't have a royal black flush. You have a gentle losing hand. You are running out of defensive chips. You are surrendering your seat at the table.
A few hours before the Paris disaster, Obama said to George Stephanopoulos that ISIS has been contained.
This is stupidly reminiscent of his statement that al-Qaeda is on the run. He should have said all radical Islam is on the run instead of al-Qaeda is on the run, but he refuses to admit that there is such a thing as generic radical Islam.
I suppose it wouldn't really matter, because radical Islam is not on the run. It is running after us, not hiding.
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Yeah, the old “hearts and minds” argument. We don’t have time.
“When my newlywed wife and I took a bus from Istanbul to Munich in 1972”
Wait...what?
Like just some nice bus trip that started in a NATO nation and went right through several eastern Bloc countries?
Part of me actually wants to hear how that went more. I never knew that was a thing to do.
One wonders what it will take to get the people riled enough to protest loud enough to keep the peace for EVERYONE.
Good catch. I’d be curious to learn more about that also.
I’d be curious to learn more about that also
...wasn’t an issue back then. I took several trips from Munich to Tehran driving cars with students, backpackers cause the trip was easier and faster than the “magic bus” that plied the route thru Istanbul....
ymmv
That would have been an awesome trip! Were visas to pass through FYR easy to get? Did you have to apply in advance or just show up?
In 1972, I was commanding an Infantry Battalion Headquarters Company in Gelnhausen, Germany. As a part of the Army plan to implement a Volunteer Army, Kitchen Police (KP) was phased out. We received a contract labor force who were all Turks. All of the headaches fell onto the Mess Sergeant, the First Sergeant, and me, and there were plenty available.
One of my observations was that the Turks learned very quickly about the German work laws, especially the generous sick leave provisions. While some Germans would abuse these perks, most of them behaved like you would expect - like Germans. The Turks behaved like Turks and work performance, absenteeism, and many other problems were rampant. One of the biggest problem was alcoholism, confirming that Turkey, when they switched from being Romans to being Muslim did not shed their affinity for alcohol and that remains in place to this day.
The Gastartbeiten Program planted the seed of Germany’s destruction.
Were visas to pass through FYR easy to get? Did you have to apply in advance or just show up?
... at that time, just a stamp with a max time limit at the border of Iran, no restrictions in Bulgaria, Turkey or elsewhere.
ymmv
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