From: Hubert Mania (humania@t-online.de)
Date: Sun Nov 24 2002 - 11:38:36 MST
Robert Bradbury wondered:
> Here is an interesting point -- It seems a generation after WWII
> are Japan and Germany still permanently sidelined -- i.e.
> they will not seriously participate in any military action.
> Will that ever change?
As a German citizen, I hope it will NOT change. We've had damn enough
military action - on the active side as well as on the receiving side. We
are sick of marching soldiers. Maybe if the US had 60 or so complete cities
razed to the ground by air raids, with all houses and children burning, as
had happened in Germany in WWII, and would have to live with the guilt of
having killed 6 million Jews, you might have a different opinion on war.
The Nazis have accumulated such a terrible amount of guilt, that any decent
German civilian should be cautious if a superpower wants to wage a
"preventive" war on Iraq and invites Germany to participate. We've had more
than enough of those "preventives" before in our history. Just think of the
crusades against the "Holy Land" Palestine to free the "Holy Grave",
originating in 12th century Germany. This whole holy cross shit! Is had been
those crusades, where the hate of the Islamic community against the West
probably got inflamed. The trail of dead and blood is so thick in Germany,
that I plead for a *once and forever* stop of "preventive" and all other
wars of aggression with German participation.
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