Obama's Visit to Buchenwald, Pt3

Obama in Germany at Buchenwald.

Rift With Germany Is Next on Diplomatic Agenda

Published: Friday, June 5, 2009 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, June 5, 2009 at 5:09 a.m.

By NICHOLAS KULISH
The New York Times

DRESDEN, Germany — After mending fences with the Muslim world in Cairo on Thursday, President Obama might want to keep his diplomatic tools handy for his stopover here, to repair his increasingly strained relationship with Chancellor Angela Merkel.

A rift has quietly opened up between Germany and the United States, marked by official statements of harmony and private grumbling. It is not an outright crisis in relations, but there are underlying tensions and disagreements on matters ranging from the global economic crisis to the future of inmates held at Guantánamo Bay.

On a more basic level, there is a sense that the Obama administration is ignoring the needs and counsel of longtime allies. Divided Germany was once at the center not only of the cold war, but of American foreign policy as well, which is no longer the case. Yet the United States can ill afford to alienate Europes largest economy and its most important intermediary in the strained relationship with Russia. Theyre not angry, theyre not anti-Obama or anti-American, said John C. Kornblum, a former United States ambassador to Germany and now a business adviser in Berlin. But theyre confused by the wave of criticism which has been sent at them by the administration and people close to the administration........

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[Jniccce05]

@CondensedHistory your an idiot.

[bri4u2906]

@CondensedHistory Source ?

[CondensedHistory]

America no longer claims that the Germans ever gassed any people at the camps located inside Germany such as Dachau and Buchenwald. During the 1950s the jew-controlled USA, USSR and England were forced to stop their wicked campaign of psychological genocide against the Germans. Ever since the gas chamber lies have been restricted to only the 6 inspection-barred camps located inside Poland. Communism engulfed Poland after WW2 so the gas chamber lies were kept alive for only those 6 camps.

[CompassionatePatriot]

Indeed. Can anyone listen to this without getting tears in their eyes? I can't. With that, let us hope that Elie Wiesel's dream of a 21st Century of hope and new beginnings does come true. Let us leave this speech with not only the eternal memory of war, but with the eternal will for peace.

[movement26]

A very poignant moment........Let us hope mankind heeds his words.