“You wanted to have peaceful Germans. Now you have them. Don’t complain.”

December 30, 2009 / 3:18 pm • By Dr. Melissa Clouthier

Regarding increasing German troops in Afghanistan via the Weekly Standard:

Stinner acknowledged that the Germans “need to do their fair share” but that the cultural hurdles to greater German military involvement were great. “Germans are the most risk-averse people in the world,” he says. And they are not so easily inclined to go to war, following 60 years of social reengineering: “You wanted to have peaceful Germans. Now you have them. Don’t complain.”

He kinda has a point.

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  • http://www.tclehner.wordpress.com Tom Lehner

    The Germans have to deal with the ghosts of their own history. Thats why they are way too scared of going into larger military involvment. Besides that the public opinion is extreme left wing liberal when it comes to multi cultural thinking. But that is all over Europe, and on top of it the Europeans are some sort of master of oportunists.

    In every major conflict after WW2 the Europeans have kept their nose out, let the U.S. do the dirty work and when everything was over the Eurpeans lead by the Germans and French always wantet to be the first there for bunisess and rebuilding complaining that the U.S. claims first hand rights.

    Another interesting note is that the Germans manage to; on one side asure friendship with the U.S. and at the same time maintain friendly relationsips with our enemies in the name of liberal thinking and Diversity.

    Well like you said – You wantet some peaceful Germans now you got them. But they are not as peaceful as we think and truth of the matter is – they are quite to be watched.

  • Andrea Reggio

    Germans were told that whatever they ancestors did was alwaws wrong – expecially in politics and battle field. Maybe they have some doubts that even this time something is not going toward the right direction  - are they wrong, aren’t they ?