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Well, maybe I should just sit here and keep my mouth shut, seeing as I'm not American. However, I did live in America for a while and it really struck me when my American Government teacher asked my why Germany wasn't helping the US with that war.
I couldn't believe he was serious about that question.
We already had our share of psychopathic war mongers. Twice!
It is really bad what happened here and I guess you couldn't understand that if you have never stood in a Concentration Camp and seen the pictures of mounts of bodies in just the spot you are standing on right now.
But as much as everybody hates Germany for it and has every right to do so, people tend to forget that Germany was almost completely destroyed in both World Wars. Now I am too young to have seen the consequences but my Grandparents lived through it and when they tell you about how a girl moved out here in the country in order to escape the bombings and died here because the French bomed down half of our town, it kinda makes you sick. My Grandpa told me that he was hiding in the shrubs while the French attacked and they flew so low, he could see the pilots' faces.
Berlin, Cologne, Dresden, Stuttgart, Würzburg... all of Germany's big cities were completely destroyed, our country was invaded and occupied, people starved in the ruins of what used to be their home. And that still lingers in our minds. Europe has seen more than enough of war on their own grounds. They have suffered the consequences.
The point I'm trying to make is that people can learn from their past. We did, anyway.
You know why Switzerland stays out of any kind of international conflict? The Swiss used to be big military agressors. In one of their wars, they lost about 95 % of their male population, that's when they decided never to wage war again.
Those are the tragedies that will make people understand. War is nothing like 9-11. It's more like Katrina. In every city of the nation. Just that it is avoidable.
A German Comedian once said something like "Thank you, America, for removing us from the first place of the world's most hated nations".
What's that saying? History repeats itself.
Maybe it's just that.
Ah, yeah, and I think it's a little far-fetched to make war due to "territorial instincts", seeing as the Iraq isn't even on the same continent. It's greed.
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