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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated

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From: longnshort4/5/2007 10:43:01 AM
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German view
"Anti-Americanism is hypocrisy at its finest. You can spend your evening catching the latest episode of '24' and then complain about Guantanamo the next morning. You can claim that the Americans have themselves to blame for terrorism, while at the same time calling for tougher restrictions on Muslim immigration to Germany. You can call the American president a mass murderer and book a flight to New York the next day. You can lament the average American's supposed lack of culture and savvy and meanwhile send off for the documents for the Green Card lottery. ...
"Today, when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad talks about a world without Israel while dreaming of an atom bomb, it seems obvious that we -- as Germans of all people -- should be putting two and two together. Why shouldn't Ahmadinejad mean what he says? But we Germans only know what we believe.

"The Americans are more dangerous than the ayatollahs? Perhaps the Americans should take the Germans at their word for a change. It's high time for a new round of re-education. The last one obviously didn't do the job."
-- Claus Christian Malzahn, writing on "Evil Americans, Poor Mullahs," March 29 in the German magazine Spiegel
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