America threatening Germany again
Germans were shocked to wake up this morning to discover the disquieting results of a new Forsa opinion poll commissioned by Stern magazine. Poorly-chewed Frühstücksei (breakfast egg) dropping from its gaping collective mouth, Germany was dismayed to learn that only forty-eight percent of Germans surveyed believe that the United States is more dangerous than Iran (thirty-one percent believe Iran is more threatening). Up until breakfast time, practically everyone had been certain that this number was actually in the high eighties.
“You bet,” replied Schnucki, her husband, shaking egg rests off his newspaper. “There were hundreds of thousands of us out on the streets back then demonstrating against that Pershing missile Scheiß. And just look at all we accomplished! What’s wrong with theses kids out there these days? If we had ever had any, you can bet that ours would have shown a little more mum. Right Schnaubilein?”
Many Germans believe that the German political establishment is largely responsible for this surprising drop in anti-American sentiment. For years the country's foreign ministers have fed the Germans the fairy tale of what they called a "critical dialogue" between Germany and the United States. It went something like this: If we are nice to the Americans, cuddle up to them a bit and occasionally pretend like we believe in the same things that they do, they will eventually stop condemning their women to death for "unchaste behavior", threatening Israel with annihilation and finally give up their despicable plans to build the atom bomb. But this cuddle up policy has clearly led Germany down a dead-end street.
American officials, for their part, are scrambling to counteract the not-growing non-threat by reconsidering recent peace offering gestures. More Bush speeches, environmentally unsound measures and foreign invasions somewhere anywhere are now said to be in the planning. After all, the next poll will be coming out soon enough.
Ich könnte diese Ayatollahs in Washington noch nie ausstehen.
Kommentare auf Deutsch? Her damit!
“You bet,” replied Schnucki, her husband, shaking egg rests off his newspaper. “There were hundreds of thousands of us out on the streets back then demonstrating against that Pershing missile Scheiß. And just look at all we accomplished! What’s wrong with theses kids out there these days? If we had ever had any, you can bet that ours would have shown a little more mum. Right Schnaubilein?”
Many Germans believe that the German political establishment is largely responsible for this surprising drop in anti-American sentiment. For years the country's foreign ministers have fed the Germans the fairy tale of what they called a "critical dialogue" between Germany and the United States. It went something like this: If we are nice to the Americans, cuddle up to them a bit and occasionally pretend like we believe in the same things that they do, they will eventually stop condemning their women to death for "unchaste behavior", threatening Israel with annihilation and finally give up their despicable plans to build the atom bomb. But this cuddle up policy has clearly led Germany down a dead-end street.
American officials, for their part, are scrambling to counteract the not-growing non-threat by reconsidering recent peace offering gestures. More Bush speeches, environmentally unsound measures and foreign invasions somewhere anywhere are now said to be in the planning. After all, the next poll will be coming out soon enough.
Ich könnte diese Ayatollahs in Washington noch nie ausstehen.
Kommentare auf Deutsch? Her damit!
PS: Thanks for the link, Zyme. But I have to say, I don't care in the least for anything that Peter Scholl-Latour has to say. He, for me, epitomizes this way of thinking. And thanks for the Iran link, Larry.
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