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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."--C.S. Lewis
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:: Sunday, March 20, 2005 ::
Schroeder Searches for Scapegoat"For that we have Chancellor Schroeder to thank. As the German politician whose legacy will be the permanent poisoning of German-American relations, he used anti-Americanism to rescue a re-election that was in jeopardy. He announced it was the policy of his government to stop the U.S. from removing Saddam. Although the ploy narrowly won him re-election, it placed him squarely at odds with reality. He was committed to finding a way to stop a super power from pursuing its national security imperative.
"Nothing Germany could do in the UN, NATO, or the other multilateral organizations founded to maintain the status quo would prevent Saddam's ouster. This presented German media elites with a dilemma. They might have to acknowledge Germany no longer had the ability to influence international affairs. It had lost its place at the center of the geo-strategic world with the end of the Cold War. It had lost its status as an economic super power after German unification. A shrinking population, collapsing welfare state, strangling tax burden, and Weimar Republic levels of unemployment were undeniable symptoms of fifty years of wrong choices. But rather than admit what every observer outside of Germany understands, the government and a willing media peddled an alternate version of reality. Everything was America's fault."
Interesting take on German-American relations; read the whole thing-David's Medienkritik [>]
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