THE GERMANS AND NERVE GAS

You’d think they’d be a little queasy about shipping vast quantities of sodium cyanide – a percursor of nerve gas – to the rogue state of North Korea. They have signed an agreement saying they wouldn’t. But Germany is now in a position of selling the chemicals for international chemical and biological terrorism, while disavowing any military attempt to deal with the global threat these weapons pose. Is it still possible to think of Germany as an ally? Or France?