I disagree completely, PJ.
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:34 AM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > Her refugee policy is one of the factors that is causing the great > European experiment to implode at the moment. > > She stood up to Putin only as much as could be done without risking a > single German solder's life, which doesn't impress a dictator who's willing > to have his political opponents assassinated even on foreign soil, in the > least. She's willing to stand up to Putin to the last Ukrainian, is hardly > a ringing endorsement. > > When future historians write about the end of Europe, Merkel will occupy > the same place in history as Chamberlain in the run up to the WWII, few > remember that he wasn't inept or indecisive, he was quite the opposite, > though that's the reputation he has, he was simply wrong. > > On 7/15/2016 10:07 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:01 AM, P.J. Alling <[email protected] >> > >> wrote: >> >> Based on the outcome of her current policies, I think that her >>> statesmanship is only a seeming and entirely accidental. >>> >> >> I disagree. She kept Europe together for as long as she could. She tried >> to rally support to oppose Putin. She made her country accommodating to >> refugees at great political cost to herself. The other major European >> countries had leaders who were indecisive or simply inept. Events far >> beyond her control has wiped out much of the progress she made, but I do >> not fault her for that. >> >> Dan Matyola >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >> > > > -- > I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve > immortality through not dying. > -- Woody Allen > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
