[tictoc]

Holy crap, please tell me this was published in a major German publication.

It was, in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung last month. That morning, I had local (Frankfurt) radio on... the classical music channel... and they do a press review every morning.

It got the briefest of mentions from the host and her interlocutor... who called it a "hate pamphlet"... did not make a dent in their self-righteous thinking... might as well try to explain color to a blind man. Nevertheless, it was good of Frankfurter Allgemeine (nationwide distribution, politically fuzzy profile but more or less conservative) to publish it. The number of Germans who are resentful of the United States is large, and the proportion of Germans who don't give a damn for Israel even greater, so any fresh reinforcement from people like Peters is welcome ...

Peters was right to hammer home the point re hypocrisy and moral posturing in Germany... German support for Israel is rapidly dwindling to the level of barely even lip service... It makes me sick.

[americanbychoice1]

Beautiful piece. I was in "D" at the time and did not see it. Glad it showed up. Europe is indeed an economic basket case and hopes for a lasting recovery are futile.

[americanbychoice1]

Watching and reading the German media makes me wonder if Goebbels is still alive or is one of his apprentices working from his script?

[ggekko]

"We Americans are all Texans now. You have left us no choice..."

Great line. It would be well to remember, however, that we received a lot of cooperation from New Europe in our Iraq adventure. Geo-politically Europe will remain impotent until it substantially increases its defense spending. Economically, however, Europe remains important and we can't afford to write off the entire Continent.

A German-French-Russian condominium would represent a potent threat to our interests as Russia still possesses a formidable military industrial complex and we could be frozen out of helping to expolit Russia's energy assets. POTUS' recent offer to help build a pipeline from Russia that would supply US energy markets is a step in the right direction.

The US needs to treat France's dream of a "Fortress Europe" seriously and to steer Europe toward a more benign model.