Wow, a really civilized behaviour. What actually are you defending in the WOT? Your life, your family? Ok, but surely not what we use to call "western values".
Well said. By the way, Germany's contribution to the coalition in Afghanistan is greatly appreciated by this American. Please keep posting away; your comments are always a tonic, and patently called for.
It is not Western values to free a terrorist murderer (for the release of a German hostage or not).
Anyone who does is NOT a follower of Western values. Furthermore, the old standard of explaining why that was wrong is no longer working vis a vis Europe. The European 'elite' simply blows off our warnings as nonsense spoken by a 'stupid' American.
Because of such an attitude, actions now need to replace words.
And while I've not been to Iraq/Afganistan, I came back from serving three years in South Korea in January.
Should this have happened regarding a South Korean and Japan, the South Koreans would have been rioting both in Japan and South Korea, Japanese fishing boats would be impounded on the flimsy-ist of charges, and the South Korean government would have summoned the Japanese embassador for a formal rebuke/withdrawn the South Korean embassador from Japan.
Not to mention some random lynching of Japanese tourists in South Korea. Heck, they do all this for any perceived failure for the Japanese to be sufficiently contrite over their actions in WWII.