Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
wobo,On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 13:18 +0000, Dallam Wych wrote:I guess that perhaps is the way America and the uk feel when they hear your chancellor repetively refer "the german way". Talk about scarey stuff, deja vu.When did Mr. Schroeder say something like "the German way"? And when did he say something that makes you look back to the Nazi era? It would be a d�j�-vu if he'd side up with Mr. Bush. The we'd really be concerned. BTW: What doo you think is the German way of today? From your statement I doubt that you have any clue.No, I don't think war is the only way. As for the US-American (sic) having the right to be the world police, I don't care much for that notion either. I am a firm believer that the US should withdraw from NATO and let the europeans deal with their own issues. Might as well withdraw from the United Nations as well, as it most certainly as become as weak as the United League ever was.So that USA would not have to pay their debts to the UN? A dept which is quite as large as some 3rd world country's debt with the BIG 7. So USA leaves NATO, so what? I think USA would suffer more than Europe from that. Meanwhile most NATO tasks are fulfilled by European soldiers because USA has already drawn nost of their military our of the current NATO involvements. And guess who is the country with the highest financial support of NATO? Read it on the NATO sites.I will pass on this, except to ask you this. Wasn't you chancellor just returned to power based on the anti-americanism in germany? Pretty much sums up the mind set of the voters in that election.Not on the Anti-Americanism but on the Anti-War issue. That is a big difference! Although I must confess that since Mr. Bush lives in the White House we may have developped some resentments. Since WWII Germany has a very strong feeling against any military involvement. As we have a more democratic way of dealing with our chancellor (i.e. he has far less political power than your president) he has to bend to the peoples will. Last polls in USA show that nearly half of the American people don't want war against Iraq in any case. In Germany our chancellor wouldn't get away with doing something like that without a large majority on his side. And he'd never get that majority. wobo
I sincerely wish that it was that way here. sadly, it would appear that america's people, for better or worse, are along for the ride.
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Mark
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