Posted on 09/23/2002 4:44:32 AM PDT by MadIvan
Perhaps Britain and America should invite Mercedes, BMW and Volkswagen to move, and then say to the German government, "All your factory are now belong to us".
Regards, Ivan
This is Steven C. Den Beste's take at the USS Clueless:
And so, Schröder's party wins the German elections, after a rancorous campaign in which Schröder and his ally Fischer of the Greens faced a challenge from the right, and in order to win had to play every leftist card they had, including the Anti-American card. Over and over again.
In the course of that, their denunciations of the US became ever more loud and emphatic. At first they simply proclaimed their disagreement with American foreign policy (especially with regard to this or any other war), and said that Germany wouldn't participate in this or any other war. Then, raising the stakes, they claimed that they would try to prevent America from fighting in Iraq, with or without German troops. The next step was to begin to directly criticize President Bush, and it came to a head when the Justice Minister, Herta Daeubler-Gmelin, said a couple of days ago that Bush was trying to stir up a war in order to not have to answer to Americans for the problems of our economy, and that this was just the kind of thing that Hitler used to do.
At which point it hit the fan. Bush and his advisers had been seething anyway, and at that point they went rather public with their dissatisfaction. Schröder apologized.
Sort of. "We're sorry you got the idea from incorrect news reports that we'd compared you to Hitler." He apologized without admitting that anything had happened that should be apologized for, and tried to pretend. I don't think that was enough, and there has been very real damage to German-American relations.
There are rumors that Schröder said privately that once he'd won, he'd make it up to Washington. It's not that easy.
Read this article by Walter Russell Mead on Jacksonian America and Jacksonian American foreign policy. It's a long read, but well worth it.
Life isn't fair.
Does ch.man stand for Swiss man? Just curious.
We can then repopulate the region with better people.
The problem here at the Federal congressional level is that 95% of the districts are re-districted into one party fiefdoms and there's no political competition. The districts ought to be designed to create competition.
Hah! Nice touch Ivan.
But they COULD have spoke up!!! You reap what you sow, ya know?
You mean there's some other kind?
Tee hee! Which makes it that much easier for us in the UK to avoid! - Ivan
What are the chances of you folks dodging the Euro bullet these days Ivan? Losing the British Pound would not be a good thing for anyone.
With this mess, the odds for us Eurosceptics improved substantially. After all, why would we want to join in a currency which would permanently link us to that kind of fuss and bother? ;)
Regards, Ivan
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