Dogs and Cats living together: the Spiegel speculates that Bush might be right afer all

The German periodical, Spiegel, in an ephemeral fit of lucidity, published an article that acknowledges that Bush was right all along and German public—along with Chancellor Schroeder—were wrong. Nobody needs to get their hopes up or anything, this is the same magazine that published this trash about the U.S.; I doubt anything has really changed.

Anyway, for what it is worth, here are a few selected quotes:

Germany loves to criticize US President George W. Bush's Middle East policies -- just like Germany loved to criticize former President Ronald Reagan. But Reagan, when he demanded that Gorbachev remove the Berlin Wall, turned out to be right. Could history repeat itself?

Don’t look now, but it already has in Afghanistan and Iraq. If you don’t wake up fast enough your going to miss Syria, Iran and North Korea. Of course it doesn’t matter if you’re awake or not because you won’t have a damn thing to do with any of it unless you count selling arms to Syria and nuclear reactors to Iraq.

Like Bush's visit, Reagan's trip was likewise accompanied by unprecedented security precautions… the Germany Reagan was traveling in, much like today's Germany, was very skeptical of the American president and his foreign policy. When Reagan stood before the Brandenburg Gate -- and the Berlin Wall -- and demanded that Gorbachev "tear down this Wall," he was lampooned the next day on the editorial pages. He is a dreamer, wrote commentators. Realpolitik looks different.

“Realpolitik looks different”, eh? Well how real is your realpolitik? Right now your realpolitiklooks damn unrealistic. After all, you would have us believe that it was your realpolitik that caused you to take what you assume that Bush’s failures in Afghanistan and Iraq were unavoidable.

But history has shown that it wasn't Reagan who was the dreamer as he voiced his demand. Rather, it was German politicians who were lacking in imagination -- a group who in 1987 couldn't imagine that there might be an alternative to a divided Germany. Those who spoke of reunification were labelled as nationalists and the entire German left was completely uninterested in a unified Germany.

The German left—and all other “lefts”—opposed German unification because it would mean another reduction in the real estate controlled by—and the people enslaved by—communism.

There is more of this drivel in this month’s article ; if you want to read it. I don’t see why you would, next month they’ll be bashing the U.S. again.