I think it’s Hitler’s fault.
Let me amend: it was Bush, after 9/11, who started the entire “religion of peace” bullshiiite, and the PC crowd took that and ran with it. At a time when Americans were really pissed off and ready to kick some ass all over the world. Had we followed the tried and true game plan of WW2 (and WW1 for that matter) the first thing you do is demonize the enemy for the home front and then get your people worked up so they are ready for what has to be done, and their morale is high. Then you go take care of the problem and don’t let up until the job is done.
That meant, attack Islam as the source of the problem, educate the American people about why, demand that Saudi Arabia and other purveyors of terror quit the spread of radicalism (under threat of annihalation), regime change in Iran and begin a long term propaganda campaign to make the Islamic world understand that their religion is a lie and a barbaric one at that. Places that can’t change need to be isolated.
It was no different from the cold war that we fought for 45 years, with hot spots that broke out into occasional wars. Only this time, we were facing an enemy that had no ability to threaten us whatsoever! They could only register pinpricks, while we had the ability to destroy them in seconds. No one in history has ever allowed themselves to be defeated by an enemy that was so weak in comparison. But we went about it.
Since 9/11, the mudslime population in this country has doubled. They became the PC protected religion, while Christians became the ones who were under assault in every way. The seeds sown by Bush, and his failures in the way he prosecuted Iraq and his handling of the economy (although the meltdown was more a democrat creation) led a united, angry country to elect a muslim-loving America hating leftist only 7 short years after the attack. It is as though we elected a Nazi in 1948 instead of the man who dropped the bomb on the Japanese.
So, I stand corrected (by myself) in blaming Hitler for what the Germans are doing to themselves today. Had Bush done things differently, the Germans would not be cozying up to Muzzy invaders today. He allowed the west to give in to insanity. Where Germans used to have Helmut Kohl, they now have Merkel. We have pushed back against the insanity that Bush brought about, but I think Germans have killed off all their men in the last two wars and won’t be able to push back.