QUOTE: Marty Peretz, in The New Republic, on some of the unusual consequences of the war in Iraq:
"America's relationship with Germany is also being refreshed after the Iraq war. Berlin's foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, has made it clear to everyone who will listen that, despite Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's personal animosity to the Bush administration, Germany is not about to join France in a doomed anti-American cabal. Both the Fischer wing of the government and the Christian Democratic opposition yearn to reestablish the historic alliance that made Germany a democracy and a trusted member of the Western coalition. Germany's rite of passage came when it participated confidently and unapologetically in the humanitarian use of military power to defend Kosovo against a lesser Saddam. Don't count Germany on the other side. Nor Japan, which will send 1,000 combat engineers to Iraq, the first deployment of its forces anywhere in 58 years, accomplished without sanction from the United Nations or assent from China."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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