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Finally, finally, our German friends may be beginning to suspect that Islamofascist fanatics can't simply be bought off by cowardice and self-abasement:
“People thought for the longest time that Germany would be safe because we didn’t send troops to Iraq,” said Johannes Schmalz, the president of the agency for the protection of the constitution — a rough equivalent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation — in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg.
“This presumption is wrong,” he said. “The enemy of violent Islamists is the Western world as a whole.”
At least one of 'em gets it.
“People thought for the longest time that Germany would be safe because we didn’t send troops to Iraq,” said Johannes Schmalz, the president of the agency for the protection of the constitution — a rough equivalent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation — in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg.
“This presumption is wrong,” he said. “The enemy of violent Islamists is the Western world as a whole.”
At least one of 'em gets it.
posted by LadybugUSA at 7:28 PM
2 Comments:
editor: one who STILL doesn't get it.
UK Polling Report done 08/21/06 shows Blair's Labour Party down 4 points since last month. But it also adds the caveat that its reports are volatile, and that polls “are akin to measuring England’s sporting performance by averaging the most recent scores of the football, rugby and cricket teams”. Labour is still predicted to win control of Parliament.
Olmert's dropping poll numbers may well be blamed on the fact that 62% of those polled felt he did not handle the war properly. 70% in one poll and 53% in another felt he should not have accepted the cease fire (emphasis added). Israeli support for Olmert before the war was 43%, during the war 78% and after the war 40%, which suggests the support lost was due to his accepting the cease fire before complete victory was achieved. Olmert compaigned partly on withdrawing from the West Bank, but has not dropped such plans, merely called for a pause in them. Why not when withdrawing from Gaza and Lebanon served only to let Hamas and Hezbollah think Israel weak rather than benevolent?
Israelis seem to be telling Olmert that he should have finished the job once and for all, not stopped before it was done.
It looks like some cut and paste artist did not get what the two nations actually got.
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