Her refugee policy is one of the factors that is causing the great
European experiment to implode at the moment.
She stood up to Putin only as much as could be done without risking a
single German solder's life, which doesn't impress a dictator who's
willing to have his political opponents assassinated even on foreign
soil, in the least. She's willing to stand up to Putin to the last
Ukrainian, is hardly a ringing endorsement.
When future historians write about the end of Europe, Merkel will occupy
the same place in history as Chamberlain in the run up to the WWII, few
remember that he wasn't inept or indecisive, he was quite the opposite,
though that's the reputation he has, he was simply wrong.
On 7/15/2016 10:07 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:01 AM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]>
wrote:
Based on the outcome of her current policies, I think that her
statesmanship is only a seeming and entirely accidental.
I disagree. She kept Europe together for as long as she could. She tried
to rally support to oppose Putin. She made her country accommodating to
refugees at great political cost to herself. The other major European
countries had leaders who were indecisive or simply inept. Events far
beyond her control has wiped out much of the progress she made, but I do
not fault her for that.
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
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