What do you mean 'bombshell'? As in good or bad?
I find the German press to be anti-US Military. Reports out of Iraq, for example, emphasize set-backs, and characterize the US as occupiers.
In this article, and the one from yesterday, the author contrasts the actions of the Americans; flying aid, and the results; the grateful response of the Indonesians who were on the verge of hopelessness; with the burocratic complexities that renders the German detail of just 9 soldiers completely incapable of even helping themselves.
Secondly, he represents the US soldiers as selfless professionals, able to accomplish remarkable logistical actions with little fanfare or desire for recognition.
The behaviour he describes brings back memories of how well our GI's treated the Germans after WW II, Older german have never forgotten the first bread or fruit they received, or the face of the GI who gave it to them.
These articles shut the yapping of the German liberal US-haters down cold, because the author cynically and subtley decscibes the German effort as ridiculous, thus taking apart any response on the liberal's end that the Americans should take a good look at how the liberals would do it, which is their usual response.
As the author describes the events, the Americans, as cool as movie stars, can do the the German liberal endeavors of caring for the down-trodden astronomically better than the German liberals can themselves.
The liberal mantra of you wage war, we care for the down-trodden has been revealed as you can do both, we can't do either.
longjack