Merkel's Prostration Before Bush By Markus Becker Angela Merkel has created a huge stir: In an op-ed published in the Washington Post, the CDU chairwoman joined in with the war chant of the US administration, denounced the German government, and thereby violated a tradition of German politics. DDP Angela Merkel: Bows down to US government Berlin - The blockade of planning for military assistance to Turkey "undermines the basis for the legitimacy of NATO," wrote Merkel in the respected US daily. "The most important lesson in German politics," the CDU chairwoman went on to say, was that there must...