When German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder declared “Nein zum Irak-Krieg” (”No to war in Iraq“), pro-war Americans and Brits were appalled by Deutschland’s cowardice.
I see it differently.
If you compared war to alcohol, Germans are like your recently sobered uncle who suffered from alcoholism for decades. Now imagine if your family was ridiculing him for not loosening up at a family wedding. The last thing you want a recovering alcoholic is to hop back on the wagon, especially because of peer pressure. Maybe Americans can drink a case of Budweiser or the English can be satisfied with a few pints of Guinness, but Germans will drain a bottle of Jägermeister.
Citizens of Sudetenland, beware!
Perhaps WWII could have been averted if Woodrow Wilson would have issued the Twelve Step program rather than his Fourteen Points program in 1918 after WWI.
Once a waroholic, always waroholic.
Originally posted 2005-03-16 14:57:00. Republished by Old Post Promoter.
