Article = Skybird Bait
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But since he isnt here apparently:
I agree that our Governments approach on military missions is moronic. Either let your Soldiers do something useful or pull them out.
Deploying soldiers with a set of ROEs so restrictive they are basically bound to their camps is a waste of money.
Generally, defense policy and the treatment of the Bundeswehr by our politicians and media is something I could rant about for hours.
Regarding internal threats, the article confuses a low key approach with no approach.
While there's no obvious racial profiling and other un PC measures, our security services sofar proved up to the task.
Also, muslims here are mostly turks, not Maghrebians (Morocco, Algeria etc.) in the Netherlands and France or Pakistani and Bangladeshi in the UK.
The radicals among them (many just live like everybody else) are more talk than anything else and spend most of the time fighting each other anyway: Turks vs Kurds, Sunnites vs Allevites, Kemalists vs Islamists etc..
Here it seems mostly that our intelligence community knows pretty much what is going on in the country, but action must be politically approved and that is touchy, as our politicians today are quite a bunch of cowards, at least of the enemy is more than some punks or skinheads and if racial issues are involoved.
Regarding Iran, I suppose in 12 years Germany might be threatened by Iranian nukes if the US hasnt flattened the place by then. But by then NATO has the absolutely not anti-russian missile defense system installed for just such a threat.
We weren't threatened by Saddams WMDs either
As a whole, while our politicians leave much to be desired (but there are no others to elect!), the people who actually do the work are up to it.
Just because a country doesnt go bragging with how many Islamists it arrests each day doesnt mean it is sleeping.