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It's time to change that.

That might be true in some special cases, but it is unlikely that it will happen in the next decades. Western Europe has completely different values in certain issues than i.e. the US or even your country. Maybe the cultural imprint plays a much bigger role than we all are thinking.

Besides - personally I share for sure a much more conservative view on punishment than most of my compatriots although I think that capital punishment should be restricted to really horrible crimes. For most murderers it is suitable enough to work for the rest of their lives in a quarry.

"Western Europe has completely different values in certain issues than i.e. the US or even your country."

Definitely, however in this case I think that quite many Western European also support the death penalty and these, who do not, think this way mostly because "elites" were putting much pressure to make It look "primitive" and "immoral".

"I think that capital punishment should be restricted to really horrible crimes."

I agree.

"I remember that you reacted quite angry on the suggestion of some other Freepers that your soldiers should go into some certain countries throughout this world (I will not mention any names here ;-)) just to play the world-police. You asked corresponding the logical question: When this is none of our business why should we waste our blood, sweat, tears and... ...money here?"

He/she must have been not nice enough. I don't think that "we" have to be the real "world-police", but in some cases we should.

"why should conflicts in Africa be of any relevance to Germany or Poland as long as we have no vital interests there? It is understandable to help its neighbours in the case of a conflict but... ...defending a strange, foreign country 7000 miles away?"

This is a very difficult issue and every case is different, however in drastic cases we should do that.

"This is the problem of a too exaggerated NATO."

I don't think so. Without enlargements NATO probably wouldn't have existed anymore. Besides NATO is now rather a geopolitical alliance and a "platform" of military cooperation than a real military alliance - in fact classic military alliances are rather useless, in "normal" conditions there is very little risk of war between civilized countries, that's just not profitable anymore and in "not normal" conditions no one would give a damn about some signed piece of paper, just like in 39.