These words were spoken to me by the former U.S. Ambassador to Germany, John Kornblum, in an interview I had with him in his office in Pariser Platz in Berlin which he had set up following his ambassadorship.
Ambassador Kornblum went on to say that Germany was in a state of “spiritual paralysis.” But this interview was some years back, and it is now almost 70 years since the trauma of Germany’s crushing defeat in World War II in 1945 and its collective shame over the Holocaust.
In recent years, Germany has developed a modest military capability, but this is far …read more
Source: The Huffington Post