Germans Near War
Since I'm having fun at the expense of the Germans today (see previous post), here's an article from the Economist about Germans and Afghanistan.
The Germans carefully inserted themselves in Afghanistan in a way that would make them feel good about their contribution to the defense of the West and be helpful to their American allies, while at the same time being in no danger whatsoever. Alas, the Taliban aren't playing according to the rules and when a German commander recenly felt himself threatened he called in the American airforce. Lots of people got killed, not all of them combatants, according to the partially sanitized report in the Economist.
The initial official German response was dishonest, and at home there's a growing constituency for getting out.
Two important differences between Israelis and other Westerners is that we've got to be more careful in the way we wage our wars, and we can't get out.
The Germans carefully inserted themselves in Afghanistan in a way that would make them feel good about their contribution to the defense of the West and be helpful to their American allies, while at the same time being in no danger whatsoever. Alas, the Taliban aren't playing according to the rules and when a German commander recenly felt himself threatened he called in the American airforce. Lots of people got killed, not all of them combatants, according to the partially sanitized report in the Economist.
The initial official German response was dishonest, and at home there's a growing constituency for getting out.
Two important differences between Israelis and other Westerners is that we've got to be more careful in the way we wage our wars, and we can't get out.
Originally posted by Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations
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