Posted on 05/22/2010 2:10:42 PM PDT by decimon
Reflections on Germany
(Munich) I’ve been walking the last two days through Munich. Much of the city core was bombed out by the allies by spring 1945. Yet today there is little evidence of such destruction. The museums are among the best in the world, the streets and parks spotless, the infrastructure superb, and the people as hard at work as ever. To walk an urban street in Germany is a different experience from say in Athens or Istanbul—traffic follows law, pedestrians are respected, horns are used rarely, trash is absent. In other words, things work and work well.
Such observations sound stereotypical these days, but to even the casual observer the difference between life in Germany and much of eastern and southern Mediterranean seems far greater than the divide between a Minnesota and Mississippi. For someone who has lived in Greece and occasionally visits Germany, it becomes increasingly clearer each year why the European Union won’t work. Germans work and create wealth. Yet under the present system, they do not receive commensurate psychological rewards—and increasingly insufficient material compensation as well.
And history shows us that an unhappy Germany is a very dangerous thing indeed.
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“LOL! What the heck does that mean, Dieter?”
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Just guessing but maybe it means the same as what we used to hear a lot in Carolina back in the sixties and seventies, “Don’t let your Mockingbird mouth overload your Hummingbird ass”.
Finally, the man w/a brain.....I salute ya.
For someone who has lived in Greece and occasionally visits Germany, it becomes increasingly clearer each year why the European Union won't work. Germans work and create wealth. Yet under the present system, they do not receive commensurate psychological rewards -- and increasingly insufficient material compensation as well. And history shows us that an unhappy Germany is a very dangerous thing indeed.
Look what happened when the Serbs were accused of doing just that.
Don't forget that The Won is, if not a closet Muslim, certainly a Muslim sympathizer.
I'm not convinced a newly awakened, strong and nuclear Germany is necessarily a problem for the US.
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