Stinky German Mouth - who is the greater fool?

I saw a post on this forum calling for China to recall it's ambassador to Germany and cut diplomatic ties to that country (see "強烈建議中國召回駐德國大使，降低關係級別" at http://club.backchina.com/main/viewthread.php?tid=669293).

While it's easy for anonymous cyber-bugs, need-to-sell newspapers, or fanatic activists (environmentalist who have very low environmental IQ, frog rights fighters who know little about frogs,  or anti-anything everything losers) to make noises 24 hours a day 7 days a week, the real game of geopolitical and national strategic interests are played by different rules. Countries like Germany and China both have much to lose if they followed these noises. These games need to be played by master minds to achieve win-win, not by average cattle ranchers or sausage makers. Unfortunately, nations keep turning out unqualified pea-sized heads to manage these affairs. Chairman Mao, who was a clever farmer's son, messed China around for decades. Now Chancellor Merkel is doing the same thing with Germany, as far as China policy is concerned. She not only made herself look foolish, but also made the whole Germany look more stupid that what it deserved. She should find sausage business a better place to utilize her strength.

Having said all that, people must not forget Germany is the very country that produced the likes of Hitler and SS, a country in Europe that committed the most horrendous crime against humanity in the early half of the 20th century, a country that foreigners still experience most hostility motivated by racism till now.

Germany may produce one of the best machines in the world, feature a beautiful country, enjoy democracy, good sausage and beer. Don't forget people, Germany enjoyed all these when Hitler commanded overwhelming support. A country that committed so much crime in very recent history also has a social and political soil that has many polluted parcels. No matter how good-looking plant and fruits may grow, those parcels remain rotten, and will take centuries to change, if ever. That soil will keep raising people with mini-Hitler in those little secret corners of their minds, under all sorts of disguise. These are typically the people who tend to  be intolerant of anything different, more noisier and aggressive in attacking those whom they don't like.

Germany can stink.

An advice to activists such as Pro-Tibetan groups. If you really want to advance your course, find a more decent spokesperson. Whenever stinky mouths in Berlin and Paris open up on your behalf, it does nothing but relating to those insincere sales person in cheap furniture store. People only become more convinced they are just trying to sell  those crappy rubbish, as they do all the time. These days, the likes of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr are hard to come by. Just like investing, you need discipline and patience to find the good stocks. While it's easy to get on the band wagon and ride the swings and spins, the bubble will burst. My observation of current Tibetan activist movement is exactly the same as the great tech stock bubble during 1999-2001. People who jumped on board end up losing BIG.

[ 本帖最後由 harry_gore 於 2008-5-20 22:08 編輯 ]