Totally agree! J Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 15, 2016, at 4:11 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > > You may disagree, it doesn't change the facts. > >> On 7/15/2016 4:37 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >> I disagree completely, PJ. >> >> >> Dan Matyola >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >> >> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:34 AM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >>> -- >>> I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve >>> immortality through not dying. >>> -- Woody Allen >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. > > > -- > I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve > immortality through not dying. > -- Woody Allen > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
