Wow, interesting and strongly worded. I hope he speaks for many Germans and Europeans, and those weenies in 'power' take heed.
This gent is a diamond in the sh*t
I would also like to comment on some of the replies fellow posters have made here:
Germany has a large "silent majority" like we have in America.
I wouldn't completely agree with this. While there are a good number of non-socialist types here, they are not in the majority. See the strong growing popularity of the Linke Partei here as a result of people thinking that the economic problems here are a cause of their current SPD/Green government not being leftist enough.
Europe was seduced into Clintonism.
That's actually an understatement. Europe, and most especially Germany absolutely loved and adored Clinton - and still does.
I'm afraid the will to fight has been spanked out of the Europeans.
The entire population, at least in Germany, are hardcore pacifists. A friend of mine (American like me) once gave me a great explanation for why this is so. Almost the entire male population was destroyed in WWII, so what Germany has running their country now is an entire generation of men raised solely by women. For anyone who has ever been her, it most definitely shows.
Most of the Western Euro-peons are concerned only with getting their government given "freebies".
You have no idea how right you are. Personal responsibility is almost nonexistant here because the people have gone 50 years being told that the Almighty State will provide for them.
Germans waving American flags lined the streets between Nurnburg and Ansbach when we (1st Armored Div.) returned home from Operation Desert Shield/Storm.
The longer I've been stationed here, the more I've come to realize that probably 95% of such outpourings of "affection" are due to the fact that our military bases in their towns means money for their towns - and that's all. I'm telling, where I am in Heidelberg, you couldn't even drive down the street towards the base during the run up to the Iraq war because there were literally huge mobs of people protesting - a friend of mine, when he was driving from his quarters with his wife and baby literally had people jumping and pounding on his car while he was trying to drive past them; the polizei watched.
He just might. I understand that the cowardly appeasing Quislings of the SPD are expected to lose big in the next election. A chancellor from the CDU will hopefully be a better ally than Schroeder and his band of America-hating commie wannabes.
From what I hear, a CDU/SPD coalition is to be expected thanks to the rising popularity of the Linke Partei (Left Party, neo-communists).
If there are any German FReepers here who would know more about the situation and say I'm dead wrong on some of this stuff I just want to say that these are only the impressions that I am/have been getting while living here for 7 years as an auslander.