Neocon, we were quite drunken by the happenings, by their quality of novelty, and by the prospect of making a difference - in the real world, not in a world of thoughts. Accordingly, many of us didn't get much that was happening around Germany, although it may have been quite important to the process. Additionally, the political style of the day was extended cabinet diplomacy, short public statements, next happening. My foreign colleagues keep telling me now, how difficult consent by our Western allies, neighbours had been - I didn't notice at the time. I lived in a world in which it was difficult to think of different factions in different countries. It was personal, not international.
That was to explain why your statement is interesting for me.
I never thought you might have been anti-re-uni. After all, you are a neocon, and it was a Republican president at that time, who allowed us (heartily or with some difficulty? - I don't know) to proceed with what had begun. Shouldn't you stand at this opinion? Also you seem to integer a person to waive and twist your opinion and talk by later knowledge as if you had always known. So it never occured to me that you might have been anti-re-uni at the time.
What were the pros and cons of re-uni at the time, in your eyes?
Regards MNI. |
