Germany: America Still Being Stupid, Even Though Stupid George Bush Is Not President Anymore
"What the US broadcaster Fox News and other media are putting out to the world as allegedly concrete warnings is negligent and damaging, and the substance is ridiculous. Of course, in Berlin if one wanted to conduct an attack, one wouldn't target a snack bar, but rather the Hotel Adlon, the TV Tower, and the central train station. And maybe a couple of other places, that anyone who knows the city a little would think of… The warnings, whose origins and explosiveness have not been proven, reminds one of the terror panic caused by the Bush administration, who, almost on a weekly basis, would raise and lower the alarm levels at their pleasure, accompanied by a great fuss in the media. That's how you keep the population afraid and legitimize a foreign war."
-An editorial about this week's terror warnings in the German newspaper Die Tageszeitung (as helpfully translated by Der Spiegel) gives one indication of how we look to the rest of the world.
well whatever at least we had some foreign sympathy for a year or two?
btw i just found out tom waits lives in my county….i would love to "run into" him someday.
Well I, for one, am just ashamed of looking foolish in front of the Germans.
Here's my favorite German joke btw:
A man walks into a bar.
He orders a couple of drinks, pays for them, and then proceeds to leave the premises, as his wife had told him that he must not be too late home.
Too soon.
I will say – those of us living abroad really appreciate the hey you're probably going to die in some awful, indeterminate event that there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.
Really brightens up our conversations with our midwestern mothers.
Yeah, good old TAZ. Keeping the faith. In 1989, I think the stories TAZ devoted the most space to were (1) low-flying Nato fighters and (2) "Sofortige Zusammenlegung der RAF-Haeftlinge" (the campaign for "Immediate Group Confinement for the Baader-Meinhof Convicts"). That's nineteen-hundred eighty-nine.
I would worry if it were Die Zeit that couldn't tell Bush and Obama apart.