Bill McElroy
Well-Known Member
PART ONE
HERE IS A GERMAN EDITORIAL - Source: QUOTE FROM
> >DIEWELT, GERMANY'S
> >LARGEST DAILY PAPER!
> >
> >If any of you still feel that this war on terror
> >is a mistake, here is an opinion from an unexpected
> >source. It's fascinating that this should come out
> >of Europe . Mathias Dapfner, Chief Executive of the
> >huge German publisher Axel Springer AG, has written
> >a blistering attack in DIE WELT, Germany's largest
> >daily paper, against the timid reaction of Europe in
> >the face of the Islamic threat.
> >
> >This is a must-read by all Americans. History
> >may well certify its correctness.
> >
> >EUROPE - THY NAME IS COWARDICE
> >
> >(Commentary by Mathias Dapfner CEO, Axel
> >Springer, AG)
> >
> >A few days ago Henry Broder wrote in Welt am
> >Sonntag, ' Europe - your family name is
> >appeasement.' It's a phrase you can't get out of
> >your head because it's so terribly true.
> >
> >Appeasement cost millions of Jews and non-Jews
> >their lives, as England and France, allies at the
> >time, negotiated and hesitated too long before they
> >noticed that Hitler had to be fought, not bound to
> >toothless agreements.
> >
> >Appeasement legitimized and stabilized Communism
> >in the Soviet Union, then East Germany , then all
> >the rest of Eastern Europe , where for decades,
> >inhuman suppressive, murderous governments were
> >glorified as the ideologically correct alternative
> >to all other possibilities.
> >
> >Appeasement crippled Europe when genocide ran
> >rampant in Kosovo, and even though we had absolute
> >proof of ongoing mass-murder, we Europeans debated
> >and debated and debated, and were still debating
> >when finally the Americans had to come from halfway
> >around the world, into Europe yet again, and do our
> >work for us.
> >
> >Rather than protecting democracy in the Middle
> >East, European Appeasement, camouflaged behind the
> >fuzzy word 'equidistance,' now countenances suicide
> >bombings in Israel by fundamentalist Palestinians.
HERE IS A GERMAN EDITORIAL - Source: QUOTE FROM
> >DIEWELT, GERMANY'S
> >LARGEST DAILY PAPER!
> >
> >If any of you still feel that this war on terror
> >is a mistake, here is an opinion from an unexpected
> >source. It's fascinating that this should come out
> >of Europe . Mathias Dapfner, Chief Executive of the
> >huge German publisher Axel Springer AG, has written
> >a blistering attack in DIE WELT, Germany's largest
> >daily paper, against the timid reaction of Europe in
> >the face of the Islamic threat.
> >
> >This is a must-read by all Americans. History
> >may well certify its correctness.
> >
> >EUROPE - THY NAME IS COWARDICE
> >
> >(Commentary by Mathias Dapfner CEO, Axel
> >Springer, AG)
> >
> >A few days ago Henry Broder wrote in Welt am
> >Sonntag, ' Europe - your family name is
> >appeasement.' It's a phrase you can't get out of
> >your head because it's so terribly true.
> >
> >Appeasement cost millions of Jews and non-Jews
> >their lives, as England and France, allies at the
> >time, negotiated and hesitated too long before they
> >noticed that Hitler had to be fought, not bound to
> >toothless agreements.
> >
> >Appeasement legitimized and stabilized Communism
> >in the Soviet Union, then East Germany , then all
> >the rest of Eastern Europe , where for decades,
> >inhuman suppressive, murderous governments were
> >glorified as the ideologically correct alternative
> >to all other possibilities.
> >
> >Appeasement crippled Europe when genocide ran
> >rampant in Kosovo, and even though we had absolute
> >proof of ongoing mass-murder, we Europeans debated
> >and debated and debated, and were still debating
> >when finally the Americans had to come from halfway
> >around the world, into Europe yet again, and do our
> >work for us.
> >
> >Rather than protecting democracy in the Middle
> >East, European Appeasement, camouflaged behind the
> >fuzzy word 'equidistance,' now countenances suicide
> >bombings in Israel by fundamentalist Palestinians.