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Thursday, September 9. 2010Are We Missing the Big Stories?Posted by Joerg Wolf in Transatlantic Relations on Thursday, September 9. 2010 James Joyner asks on the Atlantic Council's website: "NATO: A Fat, Bloated, Job Creation Project?"
What do you think? Should this be front page news? Moreover, should this be big news at this time of the year? "Terror Alert: Hamburg Islamist Speaks of Threat of Attacks in Germany"
The biggest Germany related story in the Huffington Post is our new and young First Lady. Seven photo stories of Bettina Wulff within three weeks. OMG. I am disappointed by the Huffington Post, but I should have known better. Oh, and don't get me started on the media brouhaha for all these professional provocateurs like Thilo Sarazzin, Geert Wilders, and Terry Jones, who are selling stuff. ENDNOTE: I am sorry for the light blogging these days. Atlantic Review misses big transatlantic stories. You can change that. Write a guest post. Send your submission to "ar-team AT atlanticreview.org" Thanks! Trackbacks
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Kevin Sampson
- #1 - 2010-09-11 00:59 - (Reply)
Though they may indeed be selling something, Sarrazin and Wilders also seem to have considerable public support. Comments ()
Zyme
- #2 - 2010-09-11 02:26 - (Reply)
Indeed, it is an exciting time we live in: Comments ()
Pat Patterson
- #2.1 - 2010-09-11 05:27 - (Reply)
First I have to ask if that really is Zyme? Second the Germans had already mobilized as had the Russians before the Poles annexed part of what is still Poland when the Czechs renounced their claim in 1958. In fact the PM of Czechoslovakia welcomed the Poles as he figured they would serve as counterweight to the increasing belligerency of Germany and the Soviet Union. Comments ()
Zyme
- #2.1.1 - 2010-09-11 10:31 - (Reply)
It is not mysterious Pat. These guys simply want to have a veto on who is allowed to participate in senior political positions and who is not. Comments ()
Marie Claude
- #3 - 2010-09-11 06:16 - (Reply)
Si si, it's Zyme humor ;-) Comments ()
Zyme
- #3.1 - 2010-09-11 11:34 - (Reply)
Thank you for the link Marie, I didn't know the Poles are still active on that. Did you look at the link in your article? It explains why "the tables have turned" :D Comments ()
David
- #4 - 2010-09-11 11:57 - (Reply)
@Zyme, Comments ()
Pat Patterson
- #4.1 - 2010-09-12 08:38 - (Reply)
Is this the export version of David's, "If you disagree with me you're a racist or now an anti-Semite...?" Comments ()
David
- #4.1.1 - 2010-09-12 12:07 - (Reply)
No. Some, like you, are merely ignorant. Comments ()
Pat Patterson
- #4.1.1.1 - 2010-09-12 14:25 - (Reply)
Then why bring up Junge Freiheit which is considered far right and anti-Semitic by the German security forces? Comments ()
Zyme
- #4.1.1.1.1 - 2010-09-12 22:33 - (Reply)
Good question Pat! Comments ()
Pat Patterson
- #4.1.1.1.1.1 - 2010-09-12 22:59 - (Reply)
Sorry, I thought it was rhetorical. No, absolutely not. I'm in good company here as the founders had a fear and loathing about factions. But what they worried about the most was a minority overruling the majority. A little tough on the minority sometimes but your example is similar to the Church of England taxing all North American colonists a tithe even if they were members of other Christian denominations or not even Christian. Comments ()
Pat Patterson
- #4.1.1.1.1.1.1 - 2010-09-13 01:13 - (Reply)
The point, before I got lost in the Church of England is that factions or pressure groups may perform a service by noting some injustice but that doesn't mean that the majority must accede to their demands. Comments ()
Joe Noory
- #4.1.1.2 - 2010-09-13 19:16 - (Reply)
Surely, once you're done undercutting the concept of Freiheit so long as it's a useful political straw man, are you in this invention of yours that we're all now instantly a dreaded part of, going to have to learn to be a blindly arrogant as you? Comments ()
Joe Noory
- #5 - 2010-09-13 19:12 - (Reply)
NATO's main job is to be ready at a moment's notice to kill people and break things. Strategic alliances are first and foremost a deterence instrument whose strength is in its' ability to use the rest of the alliance as a force multiplier. Comments ()
Pat Patterson
- #5.1 - 2010-09-13 22:34 - (Reply)
Lately I thought some in NATO viewed their responsibilites as telling others not to break things or else. Then they send a note to the SC about those bad guys who refuse to play by the new rules. Comments ()
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