[MadIvan]

Considering how badly behaved they're being, I suppose it's a matter of time before we'll have to shoot them again.

Oh blimey, this time can we break up Germany completely?

Regards, Ivan

[Polybius]

Considering how badly behaved they're being, I suppose it's a matter of time before we'll have to shoot them again. Oh blimey, this time can we break up Germany completely?

But Ivan, the problem is not only with Germany but also with the entire European Union, including Britain.

As the article state: Outlawing the death penalty is a requirement for membership of the 15-member European Union.

Up until 1945, the History of Western Europe was an orgy of inter-European warfare as well as dosmestic bloodshed on the streets, the gallows, the guillotines, the concentration camp gas chambers and the firing squad execution walls.

After the Pax Americana was imposed by the United States of America on Western Europe, the Western Europeans have used this prolonged period of internal Peace, not seen since the Pax Romana, to become self-righteous Peaceniks.

They are now bent on lecturing the Americans, who have assumed the dirty but necessary military burden of defending Europe from the rest of the cold, cruel world and keeping the world's sea lanes open for Europe, about the evils of anything short of Utopian Peace.

[Madame Dufarge]

Like reformed smokers or alcoholics, in many cases, they've lost the sense of the middle ground.

They've rationalized themselves into irrelevance.

I couldn't care less what they "think."