The sound of jackboots

[me_vs_gutenberg]

Germany's new minister of defense, Karl-Theodor Guttenberg (no relation) declared today that he aims to make military deployment on foreign territory "a matter of course" for the German Bundeswehr, failing to add, "Screw the constitution!" Twenty years after reunification, Germany's significance in a globalized world has grown, he continued.

Guttenberg's comments come almost exactly ten years after the day Joseph Fischer, then Germany's minister of foreign affairs, defended the Bundeswehr's participation in the war against Yugoslavia by candidly comparing Kosovo to Auschwitz.

If you happen to be among those people who think that Germans have 'learned from their past', you're right: we have. And this is what we've come up with.
Be assured: Germany's power elite aren't any more moral or responsible than their counterparts elsewhere. They're just very, very patient.

http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/23/0,3672,7931639,00.html
http://www.focus.de/politik/weitere-meldungen/bundeswehr-guttenberg-will-auslandseinsaetze-zur-routine-machen_aid_455801.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joschka_Fischer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Theodor_zu_Guttenberg
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