For those speaking German, read this op-ed and weep:
Grünen-Parteitag: Abschied von Fischers Außenpolitik - Politik - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten
Von Hubert Kleinert
Mangelnder Realismus, Großsprecherei, Antiamerikanismus: Das Afghanistan-Debakel der Grünen ist nicht nur eine Bauchlandung der "Regierungslinken", sondern schaltet die Partei auch als möglichen Bündnispartner jenseits von Rot-Grün aus. Die Blamage wird die Partei teuer zu stehen kommen.
Hubert Kleinert [Former Green representative for Hessen state, aide to Joschka Fischer]
Lacking realism, boastfulness, anti-Americanism: the Afghanistan debacle of the Greens is not only a belly landing of the "government Left", but also excludes the party as a potential coalition partner beyond Red-Green. The blamage will be expensive for the party.
No coalition with the CDU, what a tragedy. But Kleinert is right about the conservative reaction: the general secretary of the CDU's Bavarian sister, the CSU, commented the event foaming at the mouth, declaring that the Greens "betrayed" Joschka Fischer!... He just can't think of a party not built as the feudal fiefdom of its leader (like his is). *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Serious people always support war. It is a difficult choice to support war, which provides ample ground to ponder on one's seriousness in doing so.
As Gabor Steingart the born-again neocon says,
Irak-Abzug: Mein Berlin, ihr Bagdad - Politik - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten
