I couldn’t help noticing on BBC World that everyone was sporting the red poppy, symbol of the end of the First World War, on the 11th your of the 11the Day of the 11th month. (And the idiotic human tragedy of those who got killed before the clock struck 11. But then the whole was was a monument of human idiocy.)
Now the question arises, was it politically correct to be commemorating a war where… dare I even say it? The enemy was Germany? Oh dear! Surely we must not mention such terrible facts! We are allies and partners with Germany… Well…
Next year marks the centenary of the beginning of the First World War which plunged Europe into a blood bath of pain, devastation, horror and despair over the next forty years or so and then exported the savagery to the world at large with cold wars and the like.
Culminating in what is euphemistically being called the Eurozone crisis, having graduated from the sovereign debt crisis, but which is really no less than a deep crisis of civilization and values. A “rebalancing” a favourite word of the vicious tyrants ordering the death and destitution of millions. Rebalancing away from human values and in favour inhuman ones supposedly benefiting the 0.1% and worse.
Joshka Fischer, the former German Foreign Minister of Yugoslav war of succession infamy said a while ago that he hoped Germany would not cause the destruction of Europe for a third time in 100 years.
It does appear that The Frau and her policies have let him down on this.
I therefore congratulate the BBC for sporting The Poppy. One should not forget even though one may forgive. But forget, never.