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Jammie Wearing Fool, via Ace:
[President Obama] will be aware of the sensibilities of his German hosts before the D-Day commemoration and by traveling to Dresden — a city destroyed by ferocious Allied bombing in February 1945 — Mr Obama will also acknowledge how Germany suffered during the Second World War.
I have deep misgivings about the Dresden thing. But I don’t know enough to condemn them and can’t acquire the knowledge needed to condemn them; I didn’t grow up in that kind of a world. And I know my limitations.
We need a word to describe this. It is escaping a lot of criticism that it rightfully deserves, simply because no word exists to precisely describe it —
— these ineffectual, meaningless, purely-political apologies offered by soft little boy-men who’ve never known war…or who represent a constituency of soft little boy-men who’ve never known war…sitting in judgment of the memories of tougher, stronger, better men who did what they could to end war. Their casual proclamations of what is & isn’t deserving of an apology, have long since exploded past the perimeter defined by the limits of their knowledge. They don’t know what they’re talking about, and they know they don’t know what they’re talking about. It stinks to high heaven.
Your Hiroshima/Nagasaki apology is just around the corner, I’m thinkin’.
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Here’s a good place to begin if you’re interested in learning more about Dresden and its predecessor campaigns. Lots of links, and the RAF’s city-bombing campaign remains controversial to this day. As for me… I don’t believe ANY apologies are required. As it’s often said: “Don’t start nothin’, won’t be nothin’.”
- bpenni | 05/09/2009 @ 14:40I had misgivings when Pope John Paul II made all those apologies during the millenial year. I don’t know that he would qualify as a soft little boy-man. He wasn’t a soldier, but he experienced WWII and lived under communism.
I noted the total absence of reciprocity, but I suppose he felt peace must begin somewhere with someone. But I think the practical effect is that the Church is perceived as weak, at fault, and it must accomodate other points of view. Others feel free to dictate their terms. The Church as a bad player is not free to do the same.
By the time Obama is finished apologizing to the world for anything and everything that happened since America’s inception, I fear the effect will be exactly the same.
Perhaps he truly believes that apologizing will bring about the desired outcome–healing America’s image in the world. Too bad liberals operate out of some mental fantasy of the world as it ought to be and not in real life. That the effect will be a degraded America that has no strength and moral standing in international relations will be translated as a genuine and desireable ‘partnership’.
Or, he could simply be a bad player.
- Jaye | 05/09/2009 @ 17:32Crypto-Chamberlainism
- smitty1e | 05/10/2009 @ 01:22I do not feel that the Germans are owed an apology for Dresden.
The NAZI government was never shy about what they were doing. They didn’t see it as evil but as the right thing to do. You aren’t ashamed of doing good. The average German KNEW that Jews and others had been rounded up. They KNEW they were being taken off to be killed because Hitler and his cronies had more or less said that was what they had planned to do. Look at the anti-Jewish films they put out! Look at what they said before they took power! It should have come as no surprise. Why would they not believe the NAZI officials?
The same thing is happening with Wall-Street types who voted for Obama. “What you mean he really does want to raise our taxes? We never knew!” I want some of what they’ve been smoking if that’s the case, or maybe they are all Mennonites and don’t own a T.V. or read the papers.
- Fai.Mao | 05/10/2009 @ 06:45