Since WWII, again and again, Germany has been a shining exemplar,

[Joe Chi Minh]

not just to most European countries and to the US (though us particularly), but to much of the rest of the world.

EU president? Make it anyone but Blair, say the Germans

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=516653&in_page_id=1770

Of course, we don't know for sure that Blair's bid will ultimately fail, but I can't get over the number of times Germany has seemed to me like a beacon of sanity and decency in an increasingly insane and vicious world. Odd, because I never tire of watching the Nazis get a pasting at Stalingrad, Kursk, etc. But then Nazism is as old as original sin. The beast in mankind. Now, in many regards, the Germans have been doing their best to hold back the tide of this new dark age.

Naturally, I hope they don't allow their right wing to allow the barbarian goals of Anglo-American corporatism to succeed, at the inevitable expense of what remains of our Christian civilisation, such as it has been, i.e infinitely better than the godless kingdom of chaos and cruelty now so rampant. Social Democracy needs to survive the corporatist onslaught, for the sake of all mankind but the small yet very powerful destroyers of the earth.