Par for the course.
More pronounced in dovish, SPD governments-remember Ostpolitik-but even conservative governments aren't immune to this disease.
During the 1970s the Germans made a pact with Palestinian terror gangs that they wouldn't crack down on them, so long as they didn't perpetrate their crimes on German soil.
Forget for a moment that the Bader-Meinhof Gang-the white, Marxist comrades of the PLO-served as a proxy.
The point is that Germany placates terror-as have so many other countries, including this one-at its own peril.
You look the other way when a Fatah skyjacker decides to make use of your misguided hospitality, and the next thing you know Turkish Islamists are hatching a scheme to blow up Attaturk's mausoleum, and the Hamburg cell is planning the destruction of the WTC from across the Atlantic.
The krauts got their collective a$$e$ kicked so bad in WWII that they have become as cowardly as the Stench, er, French. Why do think they are so now buddy-buddy after years of mutual antagonism.
For the life of me I can't understand why the Frogs can be so friendly with the Krauts after WWI and WWII. What a worthless waste as far as US/Brit lives are concerned with regard to the French. We would still had to have kicked the Kraut's teeth out - if only to show them they weren't the supermen they thought they were.
We should have let the Russians finish the job - after all the Krauts were the first to come up with the "final solution". Would have served the the ba$tard$ right.
Not only that but we spent billions during 40 years of the Cold War to protect their slimy a$$e$ and this is the thanks we get.
Never Again!