Good to see the Warsaw Pact mentality is alive and well in a country other than Poland. Nice of the Germans to have picked an Ossi, though too bad they didn't pick one from our camp... Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
The domestic context is that the current Afghanistan mission (in a supporting role) is up for legislative renewal, and something like 2/3 of the electorate is agin it. The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
But the rhetoric is quite "global war on terror," especially the intervention in a state to fight non-state actors who may or may not be there. Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant