Ingrates

You know, I often slam the French for their ability to screw us over; but the Germans make the French look like our oldest ally.

Just think, we kicked out the Nazis, protected Germany from the communists by risking our own cities in mutual assured destruction, welcomed Germany into the Western alliance and allowed them to leap forward economically. And then we risked the wrath of a wounded but still powerful Russia after the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed by supporting unification of East and West Germany on terms that meant a total West German takeover of the East. Then we watched the Germans let their military atrophy and when the Serbs threatened the peace in Europe in the 1990s, it was America that bailed theEuropeans out and let the Germans slide when they should have taken the lead there.

And only ten years after reunification, the Germans turn on us most viciously and cultivate anti-Americanism for cheap electoral advantage.

I'm deeply disappointed in Germany. Do they feel any shame for this record?