Before this thread is flooded with the usual knee-jerk responses, I'll sadly point out that the poll results in the U.S. would probably be similar.
Well then I'd say, Piss on both country's 48%!
I don't think "kneejerk" reactions, simply becuase they are predictable, are irrational. Germany likes to feel superior about itself, and given its past, it cannot do so easily. I do not blame the current generation for the sins of previous ones, but there is an element of national guilt about things in the past that makes Germans touchy. I'm the grandson of a European who didn't think "correctly" in the 1930s and 1940s. He went to Dachau and the Gestapo's prison. So my reaction is not "kneejerk" -- my reaction is that I am proud to be an American (and not in prison). The flip side is, of course, that about one-third of Germans see Iran as the danger to peace. These must be the ones who actually listen to what Iran's leader says about Israel, Britain, and the United States and not what Der Speigel's leftist editors spoon up. I hope all remember that the leftist German icon Gunther Grass recently had to out himself as a former SS officer. His long-secret East German file was going to be made public. So a former NAZI was influential in German politics. Where are the Germans on that? Whose fault was that?
I wonder if an Iranian nuke landing in Berlin would change their minds.
Probably not.
Before you read the article, this is an excellent piece.
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.
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.