GERMANY BASHES EUROPE!!!

[Cygnus X-1 12]

I came across the most interesting article a few months back, and have only just found it again.

 

Very interesting editorial from a major German Newspaper.

 

>It's fascinating that this should come out of Europe. Mathias Dapfner, Chief Executive of the huge German publisher Axel Springer AG, has written a blistering attack in DIE WELT, Germany's largest daily paper, against the timid reaction of Europe in the face of the Islamic threat. This is a must-read by all Americans. History will certify its correctness. EUROPE - THY NAME IS COWARDICE (Commentary by Mathias Dapfner CEO, Axel Springer, AG) A few days ago Henry Broder wrote in Welt am Sonntag, "Europe - your family name is appeasement." It's a phrase you can't get out of your head because it's so terribly true. Appeasement cost millions of Jews and non-Jews their lives, as England and France, allies at the time, negotiated and hesitated too long before they noticed that Hitler had to be fought, not bound to toothless agreements. Appeasement legitimized and stabilized Communism in the Soviet Union, then East Germany, then all the rest of Eastern Europe, where for decades, inhuman suppressive, murderous governments wer! e glori fied as the ideologically correct alternative to all other possibilities. Appeasement crippled Europe when genocide ran rampant in Kosovo, and even though we had absolute proof of ongoing mass-murder, we Europeans debated and debated and debated, and were still debating when finally the Americans had to come from halfway around the world, into Europe yet again, and do our work for us. Rather than protecting democracy in the Middle East, European Appeasement, camouflaged behind the fuzzy word "equidistance," now countenances suicide bombings in Israel by fundamentalist Palestinians. Appeasement generates a mentality that allows Europe to ignore nearly 50000! 0 victims of Saddam's torture and murder machinery and, motivated by the self-righteousness of the peace movement, has the gall to issue bad grades to George Bush... Even as it is uncovered that the loudest critics of the American action in Iraq made illicit billions, no, TENS of billions, in the corrupt U.N. Oil-for-Food program. And now we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of appeasement. How is Germany reacting to the escalating violence by Islamic Fundamentalists in Holland and elsewhere? By suggesting that we really should have a "Muslim Holiday" in Germany? I wish I were joking, but I am not. A substantial fr! action of our (German) Government, and if the polls are to be believed, the German people, actually believe that creating an Official State "Muslim Holiday" will somehow spare us from the wrath of the fanatical Islamists. One cannot help but recall Britain's Neville Chamberlain waving the laughable treaty signed by Adolph Hitler and declaring European "Peace in our time". What else has to happen before the European public and its political leadership get it? There is a sort of crusade underway, an especially perfidious crusade consisting of systematic attacks by fanatic Muslims, focused on civilians, directed against our free, open Western societies, and intent upon Western Civilization's utte! r destr uction. It is a conflict that will most likely last longer than any of the great military conflicts of the last century - a conflict conducted by an enemy that cannot be tamed by "tolerance" and "accommodation" but is actually spurred on by such gestures, which have proven to be, and will always be taken by the Islamists for signs of weakness. Only two recent American Presidents had the courage needed for Anti-appeasement: Reagan and Bush.

His American critics may quibble over the details, but we Europeans know the truth. We saw it first hand: Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War, freeing half of the German people from nearly 50 years of terror and virtual slavery. And Bush, supported only by the Social Democrat Blair, acting on moral conviction, recognized the danger in the Islamic War against Democracy. His place in history will have to be evaluated after a number of years hav! e&g t;passed. In the meantime, Europe sits back with charismatic self-confidence in the multicultural corner, instead of defending liberal society's values and being an attractive center of power on the same playing field as the true great powers, America and China. On the contrary - we Europeans present ourselves, in contrast to those arrogant Americans", as the World Champions of "tolerance", which even (Germany's Interior Minister) Otto Schily justifiably criticizes. Why? Because we're so moral? I fear it's more because we're so materialistic so devoid of a moral compass. For his policies, Bush risks the fall of the dolla! r, huge amounts of additional national debt, and a massive and persistent burden on the American economy - because unlike almost all of Europe, Bush realizes what is at stake - literally everything. While we criticize the "capitalistic robber barons" of America because they seem too sure of their priorities, we timidly defend our Social Welfare systems. Stay out of it! It could get expensive! We'd rather discuss reducing our 35-hour workweek or our dental coverage, or our 4 weeks of paid vacation... Or listen to TV pastors preach about the need to "reach out to terrorists. To understand and forgive". These days, Europe reminds me of an old woman who, with shaking hands, frantically hides her last pieces of jewelry when she notices a robber>br eaking into a neighbor's house.

 

Appeasement?

 

Europe, thy name is Cowardice.

>---God Bless America--

 

I appologize for bad form and all that, I had to transpose from an email article. Keep in mind that this was written by a German native.

[GeneralZ 0]

Bravo . Us, the brits and the aussies can kick all of Europe's arses.

[Cygnus X-1 12]

Aussies need a military first :wink: (just kidding)

 

Maybe, but thats really not the focus of the article.

[TheBlackOut 7]

I really didn't feel like reading that, sum it up for me?

[BWare 0]

Bravo . Us, the brits and the aussies can kick all of Europe's arses.

Aw, that was sweet of you to include them :wink:

[Cygnus X-1 12]

Basically, a German journalist is bashing Europe for 'standing off on the sidelines' debating and rioting about job wages and working hours, while the US goes out and battles terrorism ect.

 

Read the thing, its quite interesting.

[TheBlackOut 7]

So German is basically praising us and bashing them?

[Cygnus X-1 12]

You could read the article and see for youself, instead of being lazy.... :wink:

[TheBlackOut 7]

You could read the article and see for youself, instead of being lazy.... :wink:

 

Lazy please.

[Cygnus X-1 12]

This is why promising topics get bogged down..... :wink:

[F15pilotX 4]

If only all of Germany felt that way :wink:

[Inferno 22]

Meh, Germans are stupid people anyway.

[TheBlackOut 7]

Not really.

[Cygnus X-1 12]

What makes them stupid people? The Nazis? That was a long time ago. And not all Germans were Nazis anyway. I think the way Germany recovered after the Cold War was quite remarkable, and West Germany's recovery after WWII as well. Now current political leaders may be dumbarses (like 99% of soveriegn nations these days) but that doesnt mean that all of Germany is.

[Luk3us 63]

Its not meant to be taken seriously you realise? Like when I constanlty rant on about stupid Aussies.... (Which they all are, cept for you AlphaBear... )

[Cygnus X-1 12]

right, but taking you seriously is like trying to take some one seriously when they are yelling at you while wearing oven mits on ther hands. It just doesnt work :wink:

[TheBlackOut 7]

right, but taking you seriously is like trying to take some one seriously when they are yelling at you while wearing oven mits on ther hands. It just doesnt work :wink:

 

Can't take my mom serious when she is using the oven? What if she yells "I'm on fire!" like she did just now, she's joking, right?

[Cygnus X-1 12]

deffinetly not what I mean :?

 

If 2 people are arguing, and one of them is wearing oven mits...just picture it in your head.....how rediculous does it look when a person is yelling with oven mits on? As long as they arent on fire, its friggin hillarious.

[Alphabear 11]

Its not meant to be taken seriously you realise? Like when I constanlty rant on about stupid Aussies.... (Which they all are, cept for you AlphaBear... )

 

I dont know if what you said was good or bad. Hard for me to say much against that.

[Luk3us 63]

hehe... lol.

[F15pilotX 4]

Its not meant to be taken seriously you realise? Like when I constanlty rant on about stupid Aussies.... (Which they all are, cept for you AlphaBear... )

 

I dont know if what you said was good or bad. Hard for me to say much against that.

not hard for me

 

IT'S TRUE!!!

 

(i guess)

[Alphabear 11]

what part is true?

[PolterGeist 0]

Posted a little while back "Germans are stupid people any ways" ?? Quite a little titler there, i'm not stupid and i'm from germany, you shouldn't sqibble on non-backed up theries (I know that's spelled wrong lol can't remember how >>).

[Cygnus X-1 12]

What makes them stupid people? The Nazis? That was a long time ago. And not all Germans were Nazis anyway. I think the way Germany recovered after the Cold War was quite remarkable, and West Germany's recovery after WWII as well. Now current political leaders may be dumbarses (like 99% of soveriegn nations these days) but that doesnt mean that all of Germany is.

 

see what I wrote?

[PolterGeist 0]

Thank you cygnus for that reedeaming quote =), sorry i didn't notice it i simply got a little ticked off after what he said, i apologise.