tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post5584227122630637403..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: Bombing CiviliansYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-87762297721372684742009-10-19T10:54:09.431+02:002009-10-19T10:54:09.431+02:00Two links to German articles about the German colo...Two links to German articles about the German colonel Georg Klein. <br /><br />The Anti-Rambo:<br />http://www.ftd.de/politik/international/:bundeswehr-in-afghanistan-georg-klein-der-anti-rambo/50006576.html<br /><br />and in the infamous BILD Zeitung: <br />Nato attacks German colonel<br />http://www.bild.de/BILD/politik/2009/09/18/nato-wirft-bundeswehr-oberst-klein/falsche-informationen-weiter-gegeben-zu-haben.htmlLilahttp://rungholt.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-59569385054717472512009-10-19T10:37:55.022+02:002009-10-19T10:37:55.022+02:00It was a German, yes. By the way a well-read man, ...It was a German, yes. By the way a well-read man, too, if you believe the sympathetic treatment in German papers. <br /><br />I can't recall at the moment whether the same sensitive treatment was awarded to Israeli generals, too.... my poor memory, you know.Lilahttp://rungholt.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-69434799641317573712009-10-18T14:04:11.985+02:002009-10-18T14:04:11.985+02:00well there was a German of the rank of colonel I t...well there was a German of the rank of colonel I think who ordered the bombing - at least an incidence that sounds like the one described here was all over our newspapers recently including McChrystal being furious at a German. <br />If and why they then keep mum about the contingent the "European" general speaks for is beyond my civilian mindset.<br />btw I liked best the story that McChrystal stopped wine and beer swilling by Europeans where he could - after all we (Europeans, Germans) always brag about our much superior sensitivity to the mores of locals but when it comes to giving up on beer - well that's another matter, isn't it? ;-(<br />rgds,<br />SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com