January 24, 2003

MANNERS AND MORALS: THE GERMANS ENLIGHTEN THEIR INFERIORS

The New York Times’ David Sanger (To Some in Europe, the Major Problem Is Bush the Cowboy, January 24) quotes the sophisticated Hans-Ulrich Klose, vice-chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in the German Parliament, looking down his nose at red-neck George W. Bush. “Much of it is the way he talks, this provocative manner, the jabbing of his finger at you….It’s Texas, a culture that is unfamiliar to Germans.”
Unfamiliar indeed! Have the Germans already forgotten their most popular leader—that calm, refined, gentle man, that man with such delicacy of expression and thoughtful diplomacy who won the respect and admiration of millions of Germans for his patience and wisdom—Adolf Hitler?
---Yale Kramer

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You'd think quite a few Germans would know a little something about Texas from having stayed there for several years as (well fed and well treated) POWs during WWII. 80,000 German POWs spent time in Texas.

But that ain't the half of it. "It’s Texas, a culture that is unfamiliar to Germans." And implicitly a culture which is disliked by Germans. Isn't disliking other cultures, especially cultures you are ignorant of the ultimate crime of multiculturalism and leftism?

Posted by: Robin Goodfellow on January 26, 2003 03:07 AM

Not to mention Bismark, the Kaiser, Napoleon. Boulanger, Petain, Thiers,
Clemenceau, Loubet, Napoleon 111,
and the other shrinking violets

Posted by: narciso on January 27, 2003 09:43 PM

Both dreams and people crash down.

Posted by: Matlaga Doug on December 10, 2003 10:24 PM

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

Posted by: Fryling Milo on December 21, 2003 01:12 AM