Germany Re-Engineered Ally PART 1_ Readiness for Endless War

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GERMANY, THE RE-ENGINEERED ALLY

PART 1: Readiness for endless war

By Axel Brot (*)Republished from Asia Times Online

Not so many years ago, many hoped Europe might step up as aounter!eight to "# imperial poliies$ #uh hopes !ere foused in

partiular on %ermany & not only as the leading European po!er, butas a 'no!n moderating, non&military fore in international politis$

"# ituperation of the reputed European preferene for diplomay andpeaeful onflit resolution as !ell as offiial Britain, in the person ofRihard ooper, former prime minister Tony Blairs international&relations guru, deemed it neessary to leture +post&industrial Europe+about the need for +double standards+ and olonial ruthlessness tobeat do!n benighted non&esterners, seemed to gie substane tothese hopes$

ell, %ermany and the European "nion did step up & but ratherdifferently than expeted$ And it !as no eletoral t!ith that set thestage for +better be !rong !ith the "nited #tates than being rightagainst it+$ #ine Angela -er'els isit to ashington (as theonseratie opposition leader) on the ee of the "# inasion of .ra/,

to denoune then&hanellor %erhard #hroeders deision to opposethe !ar, the return to "# good graes !as not only the mainonseratie foreign&poliy pro0et1 it turned rapidly into the supremepro0et of the %erman politial lass & inluding the #oial 2emorats$

-er'el beame the hanellor&to&go&to, the most trusted Europeaninterloutor for the "# politial lass to !or' 0ointly and determinedlyto harden "# global hegemony against the onse/uenes of Amerias.ra/&inflited !ea'ness & this not only in the !ider -iddle East butalso, and espeially, !ith regard to Russia and hina, the Bushadministrations original enemy of hoie before the +birth pangs of ane! -iddle East+ onsumed so muh of its politial apital$

Oeroming the domesti onstraints on its ability to use the %ermanarmy more extensiely for +humanitarian interentions+, for thedefense of +estern iili3ation+ against .slamist terrorism, is an

important, though not the most important, part of the -er'elgoernments +the est united behind the "#+ poliy$ Not!ithstandingthe absene of publi debate on its strategi impliations & eg, of the"# (and .sraeli) dotrine of preentie !ar, the abolition of the NorthAtlanti Treaty Organi3ations geographial restritions, the mission of+seuring aess to ra! materials+ & the re0etion on general priniplesof a more atiist military role by a ma0ority of %ermans has not (yet)been oerome$

This has far&reahing onse/uenes4 it has, in a signifiant !ay,rebooted %erman elite attitudes and expetations to!ard the E", andto!ard %ermanys relationship !ith 5rane$ The publi disourse aboutforeign poliy as !ell as the underlying elite mindset is hanging & from+responsibly onseratie+ to the hanneling of the demons 6annahArendt dealt !ith in her searh for the origins of 78th&enturydisorder4 (British) imperialism, estern militarism and raism$ Andsine the ma0ority of %ermans is (again) far behind the ure of eliteopinion, the efforts of +re&eduating+ them (as 2er #piegel reentlydemanded again) are as onsistently strident as they aremythologi3ing$

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therefore, a lot of politial apital and unning to preent that fromourring$ Both administrations onsidered the European relationship!ith Russia as the 'ey for the iability of suh a pro0et and the E"sand NATOs ne! east European members as the leer to assure itsabortion$

But !ith the alliane risis of 7887&8< & also, depending on theperspetie, the apogee or the nadir of the 5renh&%erman duo & the"# !as able to mobili3e not only the politial elites of the ne! NATO &and E" & members of eastern Europe as !ell as those of 2enmar', theNetherlands and #pain against the speter of an independent Europeanourse$ .t !as the reolt of the 5renh and %erman "#&oriented elites &expressing itself publily in an inessant and thorough media ampaign& that sealed its fate$ All of a sudden, the %erman&5renh speialrelationship had lost muh of its saliene$ The hori3on of the 'ind ofEuropean integration the "nited #tates onsidered a threat to its o!ninternational role reealed itself as muh more of a mirage than itappeared before it !as put to the test$

hanellor -er'el is the %erman inarnation of this reolt$ And thelioni3ed hampion of the olletie European right, the Amerians, andthe .sraelis, Niolas #ar'o3y, is the ideal 5renh president for turning-er'els great foreign&poliy pro0et into a 0oint enture4 !elding theE" to the "#, ma'ing European integration sere the "#&dominated,estern international order & !hateer the ost$

.t is not as if former 5renh president Ca/ues hira and his foreignand military poliy bureauraies had still been able to put the bra'eson -er'el$ After onfronting the "# on the .ra/ issue in 7887&8resident Dladimir >utin into ta'ing the same stane, hiraspolitial !ill !as exhausted and prospets for a more independentEuropean road in international politis !as dead$ #hroeders apaityto at in tandem !ith hira !as inreasingly irumsribed by hisdomesti !ea'ness1 and the "# reminded the 5renh administrationforefully of !hat it means to play hardball !ith 5renh interests$ 6e!as stymied, li'e #hroeder, by the neo&onseratieneo&liberal,"#&oriented ma0ority of the elites$

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neertheless, 0ustifies olin >o!ells famous ditum about N%Os as "#+fore multipliers+ avant la lettre4 human rights and medial seriesfor "# friends and lients, none for the opposition$

#ar'o3ys ideologial baggage also ontains the 5renh&.sraeli businessla!yer Arno ?larsfeld,a rather hysterial ampaigner for the rights of.srael and the defense of estern iili3ation as !ell as the son ofnoted Na3i hunters #erge and Beate ?larsfeld$ 6e olunteered in 7887to sere in the .sraeli 2efense 5ore and aompanied the .sraeliborder guards as a member on their rampage through the >alestinianterritories$ ?larsfeld !as #ar'o3ys leading andidate for heading theontroersial ne! -inistry for .mmigration and National .dentity & amoe omparable to Bush proposing right&!ing .sraeli politial leaderAigdor @iebermann as the head of a ne! department for 6ispanis,-uslims and Afrian&Amerians$ 5or the time being, though, #ar'o3yseems to hae reonsidered this exeedingly prooatie appointment$

idely /uoted as mentor and inspirer of #ar'o3ys +anti&totalitarian+outloo' is philosopher AndrH %lu'smann4 one of the many minorembodiments of 6annah Arendts insight about the 5renh hautebourgeoisies romanti infatuation !ith the rhetorial bombast ofideologial rogues and the titillations of iolene$ 2uring the 9:F8s hemar'eted nulear !ar as an antidote against the European addition topeae and to sae humanity & and estern iili3ation & fromommunism$ After the #oiet ollapse, he agitated for Europe to 0oinany Amerian or .sraeli !ar in reah against the +ne! 6itlers+

(-ilosei3, #addam 6ussein, Arafat, Assad, et) and +.slamofasists+,as !ell as for his 'ind of moral poliies against +totalitarian+ hina and+ne!ly&totalitarian+ Russia$

These attrations, ho!eer, did not remain limited to the >arisiansalons and media4 As the preferred 5renh interloutor for astigatingthe %erman la' of martial fiber, !hile in %ermany %lu'smann brieflyreplaed on +high&bro!+ TD the !ell &respeted, though liberal andmeasured, speialist on %erman&5renh relations, >rofessor Alfred%rosser$ .n 7887, %rosser had ommitted the rather deadly mista'e ofritii3ing instead of defending .sraels right to do as it li'es in the>alestinian territories$ 6e disappeared from %erman sreens as didmany of the %erman orrespondents of the publi media !ho hadfailed to appreiate the >alestinians as the ne! Na3is$

.n ie! of the fat that most European mainstream onseratie

parties (and een some #oial 2emorati urrents) propagandi3e theimmigrant issue inreasingly in terms of the +lash of iili3ations+ andthe +ne! antisemitism+, they hae spurred an interesting hange oforientation in the extreme right !ith all the potential for open (li'e in2enmar' or .taly) or tait allianes (li'e in #pain)$

The extreme right (5ront National, Dlaams Belang, @ega Nord, Allian3aNa3ionale, >arti an de Dri0heit et) and its nebula of goon s/uadshae also been busy building bridges to .srael and to the iolene&inlined, but tightly leashed, Iionist right (@i'ud Europe, Betar, Ce!ish2efense @eague, et) in the struggle against +Eurabia+$ One might,therefore, !onder !hether #ar'o3y has not already ta'en hisommitment to fight against the +ne! antisemitism+ and to defend5renh +national identity+ a tad too far$ %ien the thousands ofmaimed or dead Arab, Asian, and Afrian immigrant itims of raialiolene in estern Europe during the last 9= years &

underinestigated, underreported, and underproseuted in %ermany as!ell as 5rane & one might een !onder !hether the all to armsagainst the rise of antisemitism is not misdireted and !hether#ar'o3y and his irle do not do double duty as arsonists in thefire&brigade$

Bur #ar'o3y is not only a iili3ational !arrior$ 6e and his adisers &the EOs of the largest media onglomerates and the insuranebusiness & are ommitted to a radial restruturing of the distributionof po!er bet!een thepatronatand the unions, bet!een state andsoiety, bet!een the !or'ers and the haute bourgeoisie$

#ar'o3y has mar'eted himself as the energeti exeutor of aonsensus in searh of an exeutor for the last 78 or so years$2elegitimi3ing the !hole system of soial protetions !ith theirinstitutional underpinnings has been at the enter of !hat amounted toa psyhologial !arfare ampaign against the idea that there is alegitimate laim on soial 0ustie$ After seeral false starts, thisprogram seems to hae found !ith him the ehoes of the pre&orldar .. deep rights +patrie, famille, travail+, instead of +libert,fraternit, galit+$

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Een the #oialist leadership, not at all disomfited by Royals defeat &as testified by its !ell publii3ed olletie sigh of relief & is into thespirit of things$ 5renh #oialist >arty politiian 2omini/ue #trauss&?ahns +the red flag is in the mud for good+ phrase rendersunsurprising that not a fe! oters might hae pondered theadantages of getting the unaoidable up front instead of in fits,starts, and misdiretion$

Neither the 5renh elites, nor the %erman hanellor, nor the "#, arein the mood for dealing !ith /ualms and hesitations a laRoyal$#ar'o3y, in ontrast, has the intention, the !ill, the energy, thesupport of the politial lass, as !ell as the oneption of himself asthe right man for the 0ob, to pull 5rane to the Amerian good side$ A+noble ompetition+ bet!een -er'el and #ar'o3y might een beshaping up, regarding !ho is going to !or' more losely !ith the "# &espeially sine -er'el is at a disadantage$ #he is burdened !ith a#oial 2emorati oalition partner trying to sae the remnants of#hroeders Russian poliies and under pressure from the paifist left,and more importantly, from a ne!, non&setarian left&!ing party thatis eating into its eletorate and party membership$

%ien the fat that the ma0ority of the %erman politial lass and themedia are running again a high Russophobe feer, there is not muhhane that these remnants !ill be salageable$ .t is, instead, possiblethat %ermany !ill 0oin in !hen a suffiiently strong ataly3ing eent

tips relations !ith Russia into a no holds barred effort to get to the endof the +Russian problem+$ .n the meantime, the Russians !ill arry onas if they had a +strategi partner+ in -er'el, and -er'el !ill ontinueto signal her dissatisfation !ith Russias deliering on esterndemands & and leae it to the #oial 2emorati leadership to deal !ithits nostalgia$

Refi""in# T$r%e& for i"s 'ro'er role

One of the most interesting poliy initiaties of the ne! %erman&5renh tandem may appear to be a sidesho! but is, in fat,emblemati of the shape of things to ome4 replaing the E" hori3onfor Tur'ey !ith one more fitting for an oriental strategi asset$

-er'el and #ar'o3y are no! 0ointly leading an E"&!ide oalition deadset against ma'ing good on the deades&old promise for theintegration of Tur'ey into the E" as soon as it is able to implement the

acquis communautaire(total body of E" la!)$ ith the eletion of#ar'o3y the +open&ended+ aession negotiations hae no hane ofremaining open&ended and !ith his help -er'el !ill be able tooutmaneuer her #oial 2emorati baggage !hile still insisting onnegotiating !ith Tur'ey in good faith$

5or -er'el, #ar'o3y and their iili3ational !arriors, Tur'ey has noEuropean +oation+, for ultural, hristian, and oidental reasons$-er'el promises, instead, a +speial relationship+ and #ar'o3yproposes to sponsor a +-editerranean ommunity+, anhored onTur'ey, .srael and -oroo, as a geopolitial barrier against Afrianimmigrants, .slami fundamentalists, and as an additional enue for.sraeli ambitions$

The /uestion, though, is ho! to ma'e Tur'ey gie up its E" aspirationsand fall into line !ith !hateer plans are made for it$ And the main

problem is, in fat, that Tur'eys most ommitted Europeanists are tobe found in the moderately onseratie and moderately religiousenter&right Custie and 2eelopment (A?>) party, the first goerningparty after orld ar .. !hih is fairly lean, rather ompetenteonomially, and tenaiously digging at the immensely orrupt andriminal +deep state+4 the onglomerate of politiians, militaryintelligene, speial polie s/uads, and their legions of ut&outs,ut&throats, and patsies, the Tur'ish mafia, %rey oles (ie, right!ingterrorists), feudal lando!ners, and assoiated business entures$ Thisgoernment is trying to drain a s!amp in !hih %erman intelligene!as up to its 'nees sine the days of its being tas'ed !ith haperoningthe +Trident+ intelligene oordination bet!een the Tur'ish, .ranian,and .sraeli intelligene series$

Tur'eys +deep state+ has been (and, to some degree, still is) theenabling enironment & and !ith .srael, the Eastern -editerranean hub& for the interbreeding of intelligene, the seurity business, terroristgroups for hire, and mafia operations$ .t has produed the strangest,rather frightening, but most luratie, hybrids bet!een bla'operations, subersion, targeted 'illings and 'idnappings, and the!hole panoply of the drug, protetion, organ haresting, bla' medial

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researh and pharmaology, the emigration, slae labor, !eapons andtehnology, ounterfeiting, money laundering ra'ets$ Coined to.sraels nether!orld, its reah extends from the Arab ountries toAfria, from Russia and the .# to !estern and entral Asia, and, ofourse, to Europe$

This is !hat the Tur'ish goernment & !ith a strong popular mandate &is trying to reform in order to onform to the re/uirements of E"membership$ The A?> is, for good reasons, strongly ommitted to theE"4 by itself it !ould be /uite unable to ma'e its sanitation mandate!or', !hateer the strength of its eletoral base$ .t is only ia the E"that it an een approah the holy of holies, the onstitutional>raetorian prerogatie of the Tur'ish military$ .ts defenders & theparties of the seular +hite Tur's+ (ie, the urban elites) !ho regardthe reforms the E" aession proess imposes as endangering theiro!nership of the state & are preisely those #ar'o3y and -er'el arerelying on to derail Tur'eys E" prospets$

The hite Tur's +deep state+ is already s!inging into ation4 from aspate of high&profile murders !ith an ostensible +fundamentalist+ba'ground, to the threat of a military oup dHtat, from thedemonstrations !ith the maliious slogan +neither #haria, nor putsh+(trying to taint the A?> !ith the fundamentalist brush), to the theollusion bet!een ating >resident Ahmet Nedet #e3er and theonstitutional ourt (s!orn to uphold the military prerogaties) inproo'ing a onstitutional risis to blo' the eletion of the popular

5oreign -inister Abdullah %ul to the presideny$

#ine Tur'eys main estern allies are deidedly unhappy !ith thesuesses of reform and the gro!ing self&onfidene of thegoernment of Tur'ish >rime -inister Reep Tayyip Erdogan, -er'eland her ohorts are engaged in a rather iious game of delegitimi3ingTur'ish aspirations through eiled threats and humiliations$ .t is notonly the moing goal posts game that Tur'ey has to negotiate$

.t is the 'ind of ued European disussion that says in effet, +e !illma'e sure to preent the E" membership of Tur'ey+ (!hateer thedomesti reperussions in the seeral million strong Tur'ishommunity in %ermany), that is designed to oere the A?> into giingup$ There is also the tidy side&payment to onsider, namely, thedomesti delegitimi3ation of the A?> and the reempo!erment of thedeep state, no! represented by the Nationalist -oement (-6>) party

and Tur'eys oldest politial party, the Tur'ish Republian >arty (6>)that has sered estern geopolitis oh&so&!ell$

Tying the Tur'ish goernment into 'nots, the "# goernment andmany of the European media are lauding the onstitutional oation ofthe Tur'ish military to protet the seular state (implying again thatthe A?> is intent on turning Tur'ey into a sharia state) !hile, at thesame time, European politiians raise the speter of the threat ofmilitary interention in Tur'ish politis as proof that Tur'ey is not E"material$ .n the same fashion, +high European offiials+ do ba'groundbriefings on ho! a military ampaign against the >?? in .ra/ !ouldstrain NATO and end Tur'eys aession negotiations beause it !ouldbe proof that the Tur'ish goernment & !hih is against interention &annot ontrol its military$ .t is a perfidious set&up beause the "# and.srael (!ith %erman support) are doing eerything to strengthen anduse the .ranian >?? net!or' for its proxy ampaign against Tehran$

But !hy are these fores fighting so hard to terminate Tur'eys E"prospetsK

The ans!er lies not in the ne! onseratieright&!ing obsession !ithoidental identity politis or !ith the enlargement blues$ The "# !asdenied the use of Tur'ish territory for atta'ing .ra/ from the north1Tur'ey insisted, instead, on its -ontreux Treaty prerogatie of refusinga permanent Amerian naal s/uadron in the Bla' #ea$ .t has ratherrelaxed politial, and high&gro!th eonomi relations !ith itsneighbors, #yria and .ran$ .t has been aused of dragging its feet onthe Nabuo gas pipeline, designed to bring entral Asian gas toEurope and to irument the Russian pipeline system$

.t has, in fat, exellent politial and eonomi relations !ith Russia!hile haing gone out of the 9::8s business of suberting the entralAsian republis$ 5urthermore, it angered .srael !ith its disreetontats !ith 6amas and by ooling do!n the politial sope of themilitary and intelligene relationship (as !ell as its attendant businessopportunties)$ And it hurt po!erful interests !ith a more seriousengagement !ith .nterpol$

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.n other !ords, the A?> goernment is striing to sale do!n the useof Tur'ey as a strategi platform for all sorts of mayhem, fousinginstead /uite suessfully on regional trade and inestmentopportunities to maintain Tur'eys eonomi gro!th & thus stabili3ing agro!ing middle lass of +bla' Tur's+$ This approah, though, rimps"# efforts to expand the strategi threat against .ran$ Een moreimportantly, it limits Amerian aess to the auasus and entral Asiaand hampers its plans for pulling the "'raine, %eorgia and A3erbai0aninto a permanent and muh more extensie military relationship$

.n sum4 though prudent enough to hae aomodated the Tur'ishmilitarys usual leel of ooperation !ith estern ("#, .sraeli, and%erman) operations against its neighbors, it still disregarded thedemands of the estern grand strategy$ .ts poliies did nothing to helpin the +great game+ of turning the auasus and entral Asia into aleer to be used against Russia and hina$ Neither did the Tur'ishgoernment do enough for the shorter&term payoff, ie, gaining ontroloer entral Asian oil and gas$ All of this did not !in the Tur'ishgoernment friends in the right plaes$ .t set itself up, instead, forsome ariant of a regime&hange operation in !hih the ampaignagainst Tur'eys E" aspirations !ill play a piotal role$

Though the Tur'ish military is al!ays good for a oup detat, it may bediffiult to do it this time !ithout an inopportune leel of iolene(+hileani3ation+) sine the A?> !on the eletions resoundingly$ There

are other options aailable that might teah the fores of Tur'ishreform lessons about red lines and oerreahing$ A short !al' do!nmemory lane might illustrate !hat is possible$

One of the most suessful & and +bla'est+ & of "#&British +bla'operation+ against a estern, albeit neutral, ountry !as arried out infirst half of the 9:F8s$ .n 7888, none other than Reagans seretary ofdefense, aspar einberger, delassified it in an interie! !ith#!edish TD in the ontext of an inestigation into the affair of the+#oiet submarines+$

Then #!edish prime minister Olaf >alme !as a real thorn in esternflesh$ Apart from his ba'ing for the Afrinan National ongress andthe >alestine @iberation Organi3ation, he !as ery oal in his ritiismof the inreasingly dangerous Amerian onfrontation poliies to!ardsthe #oiet "nion$ 6is stane en0oyed !idespread support !ithin the

#!edish population$ This hanged rather dramatially !ith the!orld!ide fren3y about +the #oiet aggression of neutral #!eden+,!hen #!edish territorial !aters !ere repeatedly +iolated by #oietsubmarines+ and by landings of +#oiet speial fores+ on the #!edishoast$ These +inursions+ stopped !ith the still unresoled murder of>alme in 9:F, despite t!o unsuessful attempts to onit a mannamed hrister >ettersson for the rime$

ith a pleased smir', einberger onfirmed that there !as nothing#oiet in the iolation of #!edish territorial !aters (the #oiets +didnthae the apabilities+)$ There !ere, instead, routine exerises,+bet!een the #!edish nay and the Amerian and British naies andsine they !ere routine, the #!edish admiral responsible sa!obiously no need to inform his superiors or his subordinates about thenature of the +enemy+$

.t !as, in fat, not /uite a +regime hange+, but a 0oint "#&"?operation together !ith the top brass of the #!edish nay and#!edish intelligene, onduted against the foreign poliy of the#!edish goernment$ #ine then #!eden has been rather areful notto hallenge Amerian poliies & !ith the exeption perhaps of the erypopular 5oreign -inister Anna @indh, in line to beome the next primeminister$ #he !as stabbed to death in 788< by a mentally disturbedyoung immigrant$

At the time, suh operations brought the !orld lose to the brin' ofnulear !ar$ The #oiets understandably sa! this as a ruial indiatorthat the "# !as preparing its allies, and battling !ith a po!erful peaemoement, for nulear preemption against the +inreasinglyaggressie+ and +bra3en+ #oiet "nion$

A ariant of suh an operation today, though sure to hae its o!nblo!ba's, !ould ertainly not inole that 'ind of ris'$ .t !ould alsota'e into aount that the Tur'ish military and intelligene are not asmonolithi as they one !ere4 there is 'ind of nationalist reation tothe easy ontempt !ith !hih they are ta'en for granted$ But it !ouldhange Tur'eys politial hori3on for good4 a poliy sub0eted to a

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permanent +strategy of tension+, ountering demorati aspirations!ith the po!er of the deep state$ And from a ertain perspetie, thisis an eminently desirable outome$ .t !ould ma'e Tur'ey the gratefulreipient of #ar'o3ys idea of a -editerranean ommunity and -er'elsnotion of a speial relationship$

Gloom& old handsThere might hae been room, of ourse, for a debate in good faithabout Tur'eys implementation of the E"s acquis communautaire$ Thisis !hat the +open&ended+ negotiating proess !as all about$ .t is beingpoisoned, ho!eer, by the bad faith harateri3ing -er'els and#ar'o3ys approah to!ards Tur'ey$

The deay of responsible diplomay to!ards an ally and the rise ofulturalist demagoguery is the symptom of something one might all a+proto&totalitarian transition+ ta'ing plae under the guise of the +!aron terror+$ .t is led by the deay of responsibility and preditability inthe ondut of Amerian foreign poliy$ Thus, for not a fe! senior%erman diplomats & those !hose areer too' off under formerhanellor 6elmut #hmidt or under foreign minister 6ans&2ietrih%ensher, and those military planners !ho still remember the !arsare of the first half of the 9:F8s & there is no light at the end of thetunnel$

The Amerian inability to seure a more stable internationalenironment, the ombination of militany and oerreahing, proide

the terms of referene for the gloominess of these senior perennials$They are ertainly not peae&at&any&prie bleeding hearts nor losetdissidents$ They hae an ingrained propensity to loo' at the !orld asthe stage of +them ersus us+$ They ome from families of iilserants, aademis, and military offiers !ho an !ell sort out thedifferene bet!een the +upstairs+ and +do!nstairs+ & !orlds ofinternational politis$ .n other !ords, they are as solidly +estern+ or+Atlantiist+ as one ould !ish$ And they are also the first generation ofsenior %erman bureaurats !ho hae been deeply omfortable !iththe absene of great po!er ambitions and !ith the %erman role as aiilian po!er$

Their outloo' and their refletion of %ermanys olletie experienema'es them alue stability1 at least insofar as any blo!ba' resultingfrom the use of fore should be less than the threat ountered$ This, ofourse, an be liberally interpreted and does not offer muh for dealing

!ith unpreditability$ But prudene, s'eptiism, and an ironlad senseof self&limitation proided the habits for naigating in the !a'e of "#and .sraeli poliies$

These old hands dont !rite papers, they do not share their onerns instaff meetings, they may not een ommuniate them in more formalsettings$ Neertheless, the unease is palpable and it is the retirees !hoare oiing it, !ith different emphases and different degrees ofbluntness$ These are men suh as #hmidt, !ith his reputation as ano&nonsense Atlantiist1 the onseratie former minister of defense,Dol'er Ruhe1 the retired head of the planning staff under Ruhe,Die&Admiral "lrih eisser1 the former foreign poliy spea'er of theonseraties parliamentary auus, ?arl @amers$

They are !ell a/uainted !ith the ne! rop of their Amerianounterparts !ho prepare, ontrol or exeute Amerian poliies !ith

brittle arrogane and !ith the risis& and onfrontation &prone defaultsetting of Amerian foreign poliy formation$

5or /uite a fe! of them, ho!eer, the most !orrying indiation thatthe "nited #tates is irreoably set on dragging the !orld into anightmare of ontinuous and haoti iolene, is t!ofold4 the flight ordismissal of senior, onseratie professionals from the exeutiebranh of the goernment and the unrestrained, strangely exhibitionistglorying of many Amerian politiians at the ability to inflitunrestrained iolene$

One might add a third one, releant espeially to diplomats !ho hadbeen posted in the -iddle East, or to the lassiists4 the !holesalelooting and the destrution of =,888 years of -esopotamian anti/uities,

0udged on par !ith the #panish eradiation of the omplete !rittenreord of the -esoamerian iili3ations as !ell as the ultural heritageof all .ndian ultures that they ould lay their hands on1 and one thatalso ran's !ith the British burning of


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