Now Schröder has done it...

Now Schröder has destroyed the last shred of respect I had for the guy.

Not only did he call for a stop to the weapon embargo against the People's
Republic of China instituted after the massacre at Tiannanman Square, he
also voiced his full support for the position of the PRC in the question of
reuinification with Taiwan.

I realize that some amount of pandering is necessary for a market as big as
China. But let's remember that the PRC is still a dictatorship. When the
Chinese government orders another massacre against protestors with rightful
complaints, do we really want them to do it with German weapons? And if the
PRC really does attempt to invade Taiwan, as they have threatened to do
numerous times, do we really want to stand aside and applaud them?

Schröder has attempted to stay on the moral high ground before and during
the Iraq war. But what he has said and done this week has made it abundantly
clear that morals are the least of his concerns.


--
- Jürgen Hubert
Doing Time in Munich

Military Diaries III, or: Bavarian Barkeeper
http://juergen.the-huberts.net