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Bill McElroy

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PART ONE



HERE IS A GERMAN EDITORIAL - Source: QUOTE FROM

> >DIEWELT, GERMANY'S

> >LARGEST DAILY PAPER!

> >

> >If any of you still feel that this war on terror

> >is a mistake, here is an opinion from an unexpected

> >source. 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

> >may well 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 were

> >glorified 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.
 
PART - TWO



>Appeasement generates a mentality that allows

> >Europe to ignore nearly

> >500,000 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 fraction 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 utter destruction.

> >

> >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

> >have 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

> >dol
 
..and when he's done with the first one.....send him another and give ME the tab!!;):rolleyes:
 
He'll probably have to drink alone unless a few of us fly over to join him... The "Western Democracies", except for the few left supporting Blair, are a sad reflection on what should have been...
 
Let's fly him over here and pay for his beers.... I'm going to go in the other room and re-read Tom Brokaw's book, The Greatest Generation, and pretend I was part of it.



Unlce Billy
 
Umm Interesting reading. Order up some Spiesbratan and a yagermeister beer. This fellow hit it right on the nose. There are other Germans, exspecially the older germans who feel the same way. ( 3 years in Heidelberg and 3 years in Baumholder made lots of German friends.):):angry:
 

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