What We Are Dealing With, Part 1

Having spent the majority of my college and grad school years studying Germany and the German language and having lived in Germany for approximately four years, I could rightly be termed a Deutschophile. Some of my best friends are German and I still make many trips over there to visit.

Based upon that experience, I feel like I have a pretty solid handle on the German psyche when it comes to its views on the United States and U.S. foreign policy. As events merit, I'll be addressing the issue of "What We Are Dealing With" when it comes to our allies, the Germans.

In today's first installment, we take a look the president of the Bundestag, Antje Vollmer of the Green Party. Frau Vollmer is the highest ranking woman in German politics. So it is with (not really) great surprise to learn at David's Medienkritik that the most powerful female in the government of one of our allies has made some interesting accusations. It seems she has charged that the United States exposed the pedophilia scandal in the Catholic church in an effort to weaken Pope John Paul, II. The rationale for this radical action, according to Frau Vollmer, is that the late Pope was openly hostile to the American invasion of Iraq.

This friends, is....what we are dealing with.