A breath of fresh air

This is old news, really, but please read this. A well-written and scathing attack on his German contemporaries.

America has always been an easy target since WWII, but never so much as now. The European press, to include Germany, is curiously silent about how nobody in the continent did anything to stop the mass murder and genocide of 200,000 men, women, and children in Bosnia until the U.S. (on the other side of the Atlantic) decided to get involved, but are all too happy to report about Guantanamo abuses. That's the math: do nothing=innocence, to do something, though mismanaged and even largely wrong=complete culpability/evil. As much as I despise the work of Bush and his administration, at least he tried to do something about the despotic and evil regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. Could the EU do it? Please. They can't even agree on the same phuckin currency. Do you seriously expect me to believe that they will one day rise to be a unified military power (as they should be)? An English Sergeant saluting a French captain...? A German Petty Officer saluting a Polish Admiral...? I would actually like to be surprised, but I'm not exactly atwitter in anticipation.

Still, the US does deserve some criticism. Actually, a lot of criticism. Bin Laden is still at large, the Taliban is still alive and well in Afghanistan, and we seem hell bent on burning Afghan poppies but can't get a national road built in 5 years. Yes, a road. And, of course, the orange jumpsuits of Gitmo and the torture victims of Abu Ghraib becoming national symbols are shockingly inexcusable. But I wish Europeans would engage us more than make sophmoric over-simplifications. Bush is worse than Hitler? Please. Bush is too lazy to be Hitler, for starters. Secondly, Abu Ghraib does not equal Dachau. Sorry--not even close. So you can keep Hitler, Germany. He's your history, not ours.

And Britain...remember Amritsar? How 'bout the famines that occured regularly in India under British rule but never since Independence? Belgium, do we really need to bring up the Congo? France, don't even tempt me. Check that...you have nukes and aren't afraid to test them in the atmosphere and murder Greenpeace protesters in order to do it. Vive le France! The last war the Vatican supported was Fascist General Franco in the Spanish Civil War. So we all have blood on our hands is the point. We are all very flawed. To use anti-Americanism as a crutch is no less odiferous than American politicians talking of "freedom fries" and "cheese eating surrender monkeys." It's normally an indication that you have nothing of value to say and you are desperately seeking attention--like two chicks making out in a bar. It's normally not very sexy. In fact, it's pretty pathetic.