Josh Marshall picks up the baton on the growing story that German officials deliberately concealed evidence of Saddam’s smallpox stockpiles last summer to avoid any campaign distraction from the notion that it’s the U.S. that’s the main threat to world peace. Josh cites this Deutsche Welle piece with the following astonishing sentence:
In the interviews, two German government ministers let readers know that there is little danger now that American-hating terrorists could unleash the small-pox virus on the German population.
Don’t worry, in other words. By appeasing these thugs, we could deflect the horror toward the Brits and Americans. I do think that’s an underlying assumption on the part of Germany and France. By taking the anti-American line, they risk nothing. They know the US will deal with the threat; but by appeasing the Islamofascists, the Franco-German axis hopes to avoid any blowback. This is what they call being an ally.
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