Posted on 03/31/2007 4:31:30 PM PDT by freedom44
Forty-eight percent of Germans think the United States is more dangerous than Iran, a new survey shows, with only 31 percent believing the opposite. Germans' fundamental hypocrisy about the US suggests that it's high time for a new bout of re-education
The Germans have believed in many things in the course of their recent history. They've believed in colonies in Africa and in the Kaiser. They even believed in the Kaiser when he told them that there would be no more political parties, only soldiers on the front.
Not too long afterwards, they believed that Jews should be placed into ghettos and concentration camps because they were the enemies of the people. Then they believed in the autobahn and that the Third Reich would ultimately be victorious. A few years later, they believed in the Deutsche mark. They believed that the Berlin Wall would be there forever and that their pensions were safe. They believed in recycling as well as in cheap jet travel. They even believed in a German victory at the soccer World Cup.
Now they believe that the United States is a greater threat to world peace than Iran. This was the by-no-means-surprising result of a Forsa opinion poll commissioned by Stern magazine. Young Germans in particular -- 57 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds, to be precise -- said they considered the United States more dangerous than the religious regime in Iran.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
"Forty-eight percent is too low; I want the whole world to think we are more dangerous than Iran, especially the Iranians."
Perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Verdammte Narren!
Zee amis kilt our beluft Furher undt prevented zee completion of zee great vork vich he undt de moolazs hafe done zo much to advance.
Perhaps the German leftist are more dangerous than the Iranian Mullahs(?!)
Claus Christian Malzahn gets it
Germany....Fighting with the Middle East against Freedom since WWI
Actually, this is a very good article... It's nice to see that at least one person (this writer) in Germany seems to have some common sense and historical perspective. He seems to know his fellow countrymen very well.
Das typische Deutscher (Englander, Amerikaner, Ich usw.) sind zu unwißenned und verwechseln daß sie wählen würden lassen nicht.
Bitte verzeihen Sie mein bescheißen Deutsch.
Isn't 48 percent of Germany now muslim?
But, I think you and I can agree that it is a strange bit of irony to be called "evil" by the population of a nation perhaps best remembered for their death camps and genocide.
I just came from a trip to Germany and I have never met more friendly folks in my travels. That's why I'm puzzeled when I see polls like this. Oh well, I'm wondering how the questions were asked in this poll.
I think it is relatively easy for people who follow one totalitarian ideology to "convert" from one to the other. That former Nazis became communists is not remarkable at all, in spite of how self-righteous the left is. If you believe in power for its own sake, other differences are secondary. That is why former communists are gravitating towards Islamofascism. You would think there are too many differences but many leftists recognize and admire radical Islam's Will to Power. For a person to reject totalitarianism and accept liberalism (in the European sense of the word) requires a fundamental change in thinking. The self-styled "radicals" who constantly go from one form of totalitarianism to the next think that they are being original and clever, but they are the most conventional and predictable of fools.
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Since the EU has almost 200 Million more people and produces less than half of what the US does, I wouldn't give them any thought.
US Capitalists = evil
ISLAM Fascists = less evil
Germany .. the land of NAZI
Well, so long as you have major media coroporations allowing far left-wing zealots spewing their hatred, that what we're going to have to expect.
An example would be ABC News Rosie O'Donnell on "The View."
Just a couple days ago Rosie stated that the US government blew up Tower #7 on 9/11 and that the British soldiers being taken was a 'set up' for invading Iran.
he Americans are more dangerous than the ayatollahs? Perhaps the Americans should take the Germans at their word for a change. It's high time for a new round of re-education. The last one obviously didn't do the job.
Claus Christian Malzahn is SPIEGEL ONLINE's Berlin bureau chief.
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