Thread: The Libyan Crisis

Originally Posted by Norton

# France and Britain have been the main hawks on Libya while Germany has been the most vocal opponent of the bombing campaign. Berlin stunned its allies by abandoning the UK, France, and the US in the security council vote last month that mandated the bombing.

# Berlin has since promised it would commit forces for a humanitarian mission, but Paris and London would be reluctant to let Germany take the lead, fearing it would be overcautious and restrict the mission's scope.

It' hard to understand why the Germans are so reluctant to get out there and fight a little bit of a war ever now and then. It's always gone so well for them in the past.... They have become so pacifist it's blood annoying...maybe they should just disband their army and be like Costa Rica; build more windmills and save the planet. Hard to believe; the same people that gave us the Waffen SS have become the new surrender monkeys...

Good thing we have the Frogs and Brits to take on this third rate Libyan army using 1960ies equipment, and a gang of baboon mercenaries as their front line troops; and now we can now look forward to the new-age Wehrmacht handing out care packages and sprinkling rose petals as they go. I doubt if the Monty Python script writers could have come up with anything this good..

Originally Posted by koman

Originally Posted by Norton

# France and Britain have been the main hawks on Libya while Germany has been the most vocal opponent of the bombing campaign. Berlin stunned its allies by abandoning the UK, France, and the US in the security council vote last month that mandated the bombing.

# Berlin has since promised it would commit forces for a humanitarian mission, but Paris and London would be reluctant to let Germany take the lead, fearing it would be overcautious and restrict the mission's scope.

It' hard to understand why the Germans are so reluctant to get out there and fight a little bit of a war ever now and then. It's always gone so well for them in the past.... They have become so pacifist it's blood annoying...maybe they should just disband their army and be like Costa Rica; build more windmills and save the planet. Hard to believe; the same people that gave us the Waffen SS have become the new surrender monkeys...

Good thing we have the Frogs and Brits to take on this third rate Libyan army using 1960ies equipment, and a gang of baboon mercenaries as their front line troops; and now we can now look forward to the new-age Wehrmacht handing out care packages and sprinkling rose petals as they go. I doubt if the Monty Python script writers could have come up with anything this good..

Thing is that after WW2 both Japan and Germany became prosperous by giving up the empire building thing through military means and concentrated on manufacturing and trade. Where as the Yanks and their tag along buddies UK have continued to expand their economic empires through military enforcement. Now China is emerging as a world economic superpower and they have learned the lesson of how an over reliance of military expenditure (deigned to enhance economic footholds in other countries) can actually be counterproductive in the long term. Germany, obviously realizes too that spending too much of their manufacturing wealth on military excursions is not a profitable way to do business. In contrast, USA and UK, two countries with huge debt, continue to rely on expensive military conquests of other nations to extract minimal economic benefits. Its a loosing battle for old imperialist regimes in todays world. Ironically, not so much because the old adage of;-- "to the victor the spoils" doesnt work anymore, but because while imperialistic military nations like USA are spending so much of their (borrowed) wealth on warfare, other nations like China and Germany are getting on with the business of building up their economies through manufacturing and world trade without the economic burden of a huge military budget to support.

Problem now is that the US military machine is such a huge part of their overall domestic and international (failed) economic strategy, politically they cant wind it back. Even though its sending them into bankruptcy. Tag along UK is following them down the drain. France and Germany are very carefully picking which fights they want to back USA on in their own national interest, unlike UK which just goes all the way with USA.

Originally Posted by koman

Originally Posted by Norton

# France and Britain have been the main hawks on Libya while Germany has been the most vocal opponent of the bombing campaign. Berlin stunned its allies by abandoning the UK, France, and the US in the security council vote last month that mandated the bombing.

# Berlin has since promised it would commit forces for a humanitarian mission, but Paris and London would be reluctant to let Germany take the lead, fearing it would be overcautious and restrict the mission's scope.

It' hard to understand why the Germans are so reluctant to get out there and fight a little bit of a war ever now and then. It's always gone so well for them in the past.... They have become so pacifist it's blood annoying...maybe they should just disband their army and be like Costa Rica; build more windmills and save the planet. Hard to believe; the same people that gave us the Waffen SS have become the new surrender monkeys...

Good thing we have the Frogs and Brits to take on this third rate Libyan army using 1960ies equipment, and a gang of baboon mercenaries as their front line troops; and now we can now look forward to the new-age Wehrmacht handing out care packages and sprinkling rose petals as they go. I doubt if the Monty Python script writers could have come up with anything this good..

I cant GREEN you... That is funny as hell

Originally Posted by Carrabow

Originally Posted by koman

Originally Posted by Norton

# France and Britain have been the main hawks on Libya while Germany has been the most vocal opponent of the bombing campaign. Berlin stunned its allies by abandoning the UK, France, and the US in the security council vote last month that mandated the bombing.

# Berlin has since promised it would commit forces for a humanitarian mission, but Paris and London would be reluctant to let Germany take the lead, fearing it would be overcautious and restrict the mission's scope.

It' hard to understand why the Germans are so reluctant to get out there and fight a little bit of a war ever now and then. It's always gone so well for them in the past.... They have become so pacifist it's blood annoying...maybe they should just disband their army and be like Costa Rica; build more windmills and save the planet. Hard to believe; the same people that gave us the Waffen SS have become the new surrender monkeys...

Good thing we have the Frogs and Brits to take on this third rate Libyan army using 1960ies equipment, and a gang of baboon mercenaries as their front line troops; and now we can now look forward to the new-age Wehrmacht handing out care packages and sprinkling rose petals as they go. I doubt if the Monty Python script writers could have come up with anything this good..

I cant GREEN you... That is funny as hell

Funny, unless you live in a country where your standard of living is going down the drain to support a military industrial complex that is providing no economic benefit and sucking the life out of you, your kids and generations to come.