As is well known, though perhaps receding into forgetfulness by now, the infamous Bin Laden began as a warrior against the Communist invasion of Afghanistan, financed by the US, for obvious reasons. In other words he was in the pay of the US fighting a war sponsored by the US against Communism. The rest of the story we do remember. How the religious fanaticism the US tapped into when recruiting him to support their interests, turned against them resulting in Al Qaida and the destruction of the twin towers in New York.
So what has this all got to do with Angela Merkel…. Well… though not a religious fanatic (well, if you take her Protestant/Calvinist view of the world out of the equation that is) she is most definitely a Deutscheland Uber Alles fanatic. No one can have any doubt about that any more.
Little Angela grew up and was educated in that hard core communist country East Germany. As far as we know she didn’t do any rebelling against the regime or anything like that. She studied Physics like a good obedient student, and if at the time she did have objections to the regime and its ideology she kept them to herself.
Nevertheless, once the wall and all that had come safely crumbling down she presented herself as a champion of the Right, Free Market Economics, attached herself to Helmut Kohl as his prot?g?e (stabbing him in the back later, to further her glorious career).
Anyway, here was a model hero, heroine, of the Free World (note Free World with Free Market Economics should NEVER be confused because they are a contradiction in terms). In this light and this guise she was obviously a good candidate for Chancellor of Germany. A role model. A secret right winger who had survived the communist regime and was now leading her re united country under the banner of Free Market Capitalism.
However, little Angela never got over two things, it would appear. Firstly her dogmatic, intransigent, inflexible approach to things, no doubt a feature her communist upbringing instilled in her, and her Deutscheland Uber Alles fanaticism.
While it was merely a question of screwing the Greeks and sending them all to hell it didn’t really matter, because the propaganda (a skill also acquired in East Germany) disseminated, portrayed the Greeks as profligate, corrupt, lazy and only getting their just deserts.
Now, however, that it is becoming more and more obvious that little Angela’s childhood dream of a strong Germany taking over Europe is really what her Nonsense Economics plan is all about, things are beginning to look differently. In her attempts to achieve her dream she is risking the collapse of the whole Euro Zone and even the European Union which she has already hijacked and to which she has appointed or condoned suitable docile nonentities such as Jose Manuel Barroso, Herman Van Rombuy and dear old spluttering Olli Rehn to name but three.
And this might be all very well, except that her illusions de grandeur and hegemonic antics are putting the whole world economy at risk and perhaps above all that of the US. She has, in effect, done a Bin Laden on them. Her fanaticism has driven her in a direction not only unacceptable to the US (and the world) but positively inimical to it (and the world).
Can we hope for a the US cavalry to come charging in and save us from brutal German domination and oppression?
Well, if so, it will hardly be the first time. In fact it will be the third within the span of a century. Third time lucky, lets hope!