Couple things from David Kaspar. First, Chancellor Schroeder has re-iterated his opposition to the idea of sending German troops to Iraq, calling it a choice representative of "responsible policy." How not doing everything possible to re-stabalize Iraq at this point can be anything but unprincipled is beyond me - unless the German government actually knows it's going to happen without them anyway. At this point in the game, such policies strike me as tantamount to cutting off one's nose to spite one's face, but such is life in today's Germany.

Herr Schroeder also believes that Germany...wait for it...is deservant of a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Perhaps the UN does, in fact, deserve Germany, but why the United States would ever support the further erruption of the credibility of the UN as an organization is too bizarre to consider.

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