Let ´Em Eat Wurst

Abu Afak, Montag, 14. Juli 2003, 07:15 (vor 7807 Tagen)

(Ralph Peters)

July 13, 2003 -- MY heart breaks: Sniffing in
Teutonic superiority, German Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder has cancelled his Italian vacation!

Apart from the fact that Italy, the home of grace
and beauty, doesn´t need any more loud, fat krauts
polluting its environment, there´s an even more
important matter involved: Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi doesn´t take any crap from Eurocrats
and the self-righteous sons and daughters of the
SS.

Informed that Germany´s answer to Bill Clinton
wasn´t going to grace bella Italia with his
presence this year, Super-Silvio shrugged and
said, "Too bad for him."

Berlusconi nailed it. An embarrassing
not-quite-secret is that German politicians can´t
wait to abandon Deutschland for vacations in
Tuscany or Umbria. (Schroeder´s foreign minister,
Joschka Fischer, almost qualifies for Italian
citizenship.) Yet the Germans remain deeply
bigoted toward Italians (and toward all Europeans
who live south of the Alps - "Not our kind,
Dahhling . . .").

Forget the fact that the German contribution to
the Renaissance was the realization that you could
fit more beer in a bigger mug. The Germans still
regard Italians as Untermenschen, fit to run a
neighborhood pizzeria, but not to have an equal
say in the future of Europe.

Berlusconi isn´t playing along. The Italian prime
minister isn´t a member of the snitty little club
of European politicians who spend their adult
lives commuting between Brussels, Strasbourg and
their own capitals. He comes from the business
world, where men and women actually have to
accomplish things.
And it gets better from there....""

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