History of Germany

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[netmilsmom]

Received this one from a friend:

A Brief History of Germany

1871 - Bismark founds modern Germany. 1890 - Bismark sacked, warmonger Wilhelm II takes direct control. 1914 - Germany starts World War I 1914-1918 - Germany kills millions upon millions of people. 1917 - Germany force peace loving Americans to enter war. 1918 - Germany loses World War I. 1920's - Germans try democracy. 1933 - Germans reject democracy, allow Hitler to take power. 1939 - Germany starts World War II. 1939-1945 - Germany kills millions upon millions of people. 1941 - Germany force peace loving Americans to enter war. 1945 - Germany loses World War II. 1946 - Germans whine about lack of food, America gives billions in food aid to feed them. 1947 - Germans whine about crappy economy, America gives billions in Marshall Plan aid to rebuild German economy. 1948-1949 - America puts ass on line and risk WW3 to save a few Berliners from Soviet hordes. 1949 - F! ederal Republic of Germany (West Germany) established. 1950's - America spends billions to defend West Germany from Soviet hordes. 1950's - German 'economic miracle' occurs while America keeps watch on Soviet hordes. 1955 - NATO formed to protect West Germany from Soviet hordes. 1960's - America spends billions to defend West Germany from Soviet hordes. 1960's - German students protest war in Vietnam and American civil rights. 1963 - American President John Kennedy makes "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech. 1970's - America spends billions to defend West Germany from Soviet hordes. 1970's - Germans form the marxist terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF). 1970's - Leftist German guerrillas burn, loot, and plunder much of West Germany. 1980's - America spends tens of billions to defend West Germany from Soviet hordes. 1980's - German leftists bitch about Pershing II missles. 1987 - American President Ronald Reagan ma! kes "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech. 1989 - Gorbachev tears down Berlin Wall. 1990 - German Reunification. 1990's - America spends tens of billions to defend Germany from Islamic hordes. 1990's - Germany stands by as ethnic cleasing occurs in Balkans. 1993 - Germany joins European Union. 1995 - Americans send troops to Bosnia as Germans watch from the sidelines. 1997 - Germans finally send troops to Bosnia. 1998 - Hardline, left-of-left socialist come to power under Gerhard Schroeder. 1999 - American's lead air war to save Kosovo as Germans watch from the sidelines. 2001 - Schroeder offers solidarity to America after 9/11 attacks. 2002 - Schroeder bashes America to distract voters during election campaign. 2003 - Germany sees rise in anti-americanism after several decades of poor treatment from America.

AND YOU THOUGHT THE FRENCH WERE A BUNCH OF UNGRATEFUL B#STARDS?

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

In addition, it is noteworthy that the Voice of America broadcasts that may have egged on the Hungarians and Czechs were NOT a German production.

U.S. propaganda incited anti-Communist insurrection even while the U.S. government had no intention of aiding these people. It was just a way of forcing the Communists to embarass themselves by committing open and brutal reprisals against the rebels.

[Michael81Dus]

Actually, the Germans have troops in Kosovo as well as in Bosnia.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Are you saying that the U.S. egging on of the Hungarians (a la the egging on the Kurds in 1991) followed by a subsequent bloodly betrayal was a good thing?

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

Not at all. I think it was despicable, and a foreshadowing of our cut-and-run betrayal of the Vietnamese, not to mention the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

In my opinion, you should either fight the war or keep the peace, with the latter to be preferred. This setting up, and then deserting, of surrogates is like what the French and English did to Poland in 1939. Give them every assurance of support, then walk away and leave them to their fate.