Sometimes the most important news out of Europe is the news that American “journalists” chose to ignore. Funny how it happens that whenever foreign world leaders criticise the Bush administration, US reporters are falling over themselves to get the word out. They look like a crowd of screaming teenage girls trying to get a look at the Beattles. But let a group of foreign leaders move in the direction of America and they are either ignored or tagged as “puppets” of the Bush administration. Case in point, the election in Germany.
The US media has chosen to ignore this election. It simply doesn’t fit with their view of how things ought to be. The German people voted for Merkel’s Conservative coalition over Schroeder’s Socialists. How dare they!! Schroeder couldn’t just bow out gracefully of course. He had to take the expected cheap shots at Bush and Blair. He criticised what he referred to as “Anglo-Saxon economic policies,” which is to say, economic policies tilted in favour of limited government and free enterprise. This is understandable since Schroeder and Chirac have pushed the European Union further in the direction of unabashed Socialism.
The US media has chosen to ignore this election. It simply doesn’t fit with their view of how things ought to be. The German people voted for Merkel’s Conservative coalition over Schroeder’s Socialists. How dare they!! Schroeder couldn’t just bow out gracefully of course. He had to take the expected cheap shots at Bush and Blair. He criticised what he referred to as “Anglo-Saxon economic policies,” which is to say, economic policies tilted in favour of limited government and free enterprise. This is understandable since Schroeder and Chirac have pushed the European Union further in the direction of unabashed Socialism.
I have often said that the best cure for Socialism is, Socialism. It seems the European people are slowly leaning this lesson as well.