Ping!
As an American, who cares.
No thanks, Germany.
Now that all the heavy lifting has been done in in Afganistan and Iraq ?............
It's okay because there will be many more battles against terrorist before this is all over and we will need the help.
In the past three years Gerhard Schroeder and his ally, the former street thug Joschka Fischer, have managed to deeply poison the relationship between Germany and the USA - the USA which had been Germany's best friend in the world since WWII. This will not be easily healed, but the CDU/CSU/FDP coalition will try and I suspect will have some success. The underlying problem is that Germany's leftwing intelligentsia hates America - as does America's own leftwing intelligentsia.
Great news, both unfriendly axis Franco-German and Russo-German would be weakened if not destroyed.