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| Merkel's Germany: Insane Asylum |
| 2015-09-13 |
| BLUF: [The American Interest] For all this we can blame the Nazis, because the moral ricochet over time is clear, and it is in many ways very noble. It’s nice that the Germans want to be moral, isn’t it? But absent a heavy doze of Niebuhrian moral realism, they now risk letting dead Nazis derange living thought from beyond the grave. At this point, sober Germans are worried about money, about what all this will cost. But this is not really about money. It’s about much more important kinds of business, political business ultimately, and politics is trump. I would love to be proved wrong about all this. But the derangement of moral reasoning in Western Europe seems so advanced and deep that it is hard to be optimistic. One fears that if reasonable people do not somehow apply a brake to this wild excess of selfless saintliness, unreasonable people eventually will. And guess who might still be around to cheer, encourage, and perhaps even arm the unreasonable? Yes, Vlad the Putin himself, as he is indeed already doing in a minor key. Then there will be a problem, and it will ultimately be a problem for Americans as well as for Europeans. Doesn’t it always go like that, again, whether we like it or not? The 'moral ricochet', a profoundly accurate assessment. I have actually heard Germans describe the condition in similar terms. But before we label the Germans 'insane', a little self-examination. There are many familiar examples of our own moral ricochets; 'The Civil Rights Movement' and 'The Great Society' are but two. Lastly, a ricochet can be just as deadly as a well placed shot. |
| Posted by:Elmerert Hupens2660 |
| #6 There are strong indications that 'Russian domination' and 'Muslim/Sharia rule' are not mutually exclusive. Merkel's destructive politics shouldn't be unwelcome to Putin. Her bad example has already boosted his ally Orban's name recognition and probably also his popularity in Germany. Is she playing 'bad cop' to drive parts of the EU into Putin's arms? |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-09-13 19:10 |
| #5 Well East Germany certainly knows a bit about Russian domination, and we will make sure that Muslims won't dominate anything here. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2015-09-13 13:15 |
| #4 If Europe's choices are between Muslim occupation and Russian domination, I know what I'd advise. Posted by: g(r)omgoru We ALL know what you'd advise |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-09-13 10:00 |
| #3 Yech. What a choice. Well, since they're not only demonstrated their total incapacity for self-rule, but actually infected their erstwhile American keepers with the same disease.... |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-09-13 09:56 |
| #2 Yech. What a choice. |
| Posted by: Nguard 2015-09-13 09:26 |
| #1 And guess who might still be around to cheer, encourage, and perhaps even arm the unreasonable? Yes, Vlad the Putin himself, as he is indeed already doing in a minor key. If Europe's choices are between Muslim occupation and Russian domination, I know what I'd advise. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-09-13 07:21 |