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24th November 2012, 20:04
While CDU Finance Minister Schäuble stated recently in an economic debate that "In the 21 century, we need other forms of global governance (...) if we shall not leave it to the revolutions or disasters", the 'Minister of Defense' is going on campaign to bring the military to the hearts and dining tables of German families in the defence of German "economic interests".
De Maiziere PROMOTES GERMAN MILITARISM
Written by Martin Novak and Peter Schwarz - http://www.wsws.org
Saturday the 24th November 2012 at 07:32 clock
Ironically, in the Dresden Frauenkirche, German Defence Minister Thomas de Maizière campaigned on 1 November for German militarism. The ruins of the destroyed in 1945 during the Allied air raid on Dresden church had served in the German Democratic Republic as a memorial to the war and has been built up after reunification with international donations.
De Maiziere spoke at the "Forum Frauenkirche" about "perceive international responsibility - Germany's role in the world today." The main room of the church was well filled, some few were scattered in the upper galleries. Among the several hundred listeners several dozen uniformed Persons had joined, which, as the presenter announced, had come under the leadership of their brigadier general from the traditional school of the army officer in Dresden.
Before the lecture began, an elderly man took to the altar, and pointed out that the debris of the house would have remembered a few years ago at German megalomania and German militarist crimes. Now, the minister ready here again before the deployment of German soldiers in the world. He referred to the Kunduz massacre in Afghanistan 2009 that had claimed over a hundred civilian casualties, and protested that in this church war propaganda was being operated.
The man was heckled and booed which grew into a whistling concert, so he had to leave the church. His companion said to the audience: "Shame on you!"
De Maiziere used the ecclesiastical part of the event, to underpin its militarist propaganda with Bible verses, quotes Luther and anti-communist prejudices. He appealed to irrationalism, vague fears and "the trust in faith in a world of uncertainty" to campaign for worldwide deployment of the Bundeswehr as "a key instrument of German security policy."
Anti-militarism, which is after the experience of two world wars rooted in broad social classes, he tried to shake, by focusing on hope and faith convened and condemned any kind of certainty as a characteristic of totalitarian regimes.
"Nazism and Communism," said de Maizière, "were characterized by a worldview that had ready an explanation for everything - and suggested security and certainty, and especially for this certainty demanded relentless followers. But on the promise of absolute certainly showed their totalitarian character - and its contempt for the freedom of the individual. After all, what ultimately total certainty is there on earth? What would we have to get all existential questions complete certain? The result would be oppression."
From this appeal to skepticism, ignorance and religious mysticism spanned an arc of defense for global deployment of the Bundeswehr to fight "in a world of uncertainty" for German interests. "We have become more vulnerable: the world trade and global communication networks can be combined with simple and inexpensive means of interfering," he said, pleading for a common foreign and security policy, the "value-bound and vested interests" and that explicitly military means to include.
De Maiziere concluded his contribution with the call to strengthen the army's back. Their use deserve "social status," he said. "We as a society need to take responsibility for those who take over for Germany's security and interests of certain responsibilities." He called for a public debate in order to create "the necessary awareness" and a "social consensus" produce "so that Germany in its role the world needs today is ".
De Maizière appearance in the Church of Our Lady is part of a broader campaign to improve the image of the armed forces and to win over public opinion for a more aggressive militarism. In an article written by the Minister of Defence on 20 November published in the Berliner Zeitung, he speaks so clearly. He calls for "schools, universities, churches and everywhere, where public debate is at" to discuss German security and defense policy.
The article sees De Maizère defend against the charges of foreign newspapers that the Germans were "militant pacifist and moralizing." He advertises openly for the military defense of economic interests and complains: "The economic interests in our country are sometimes regarded as ethically inferior, as an inadequate defense at all." In fact the economic interests relate to a "German, great-interest ': As the most populous country, as the strongest economy Europe, as the second largest exporter in the world, we Germans are dependent on international stability. "
Background of the propaganda offensive de Maizieres is the profound crisis of world capitalism. In light of Euro crisis and international review to take the tension and conflict between the great powers. The ruling class in Germany has come to the conclusion that they can defend their economic interests only if they also militarily again going strong.
Although 6,000 German soldiers are already at twelve different locations on three continents, the government urges to further Bundeswehr missions in Mali and on the Turkish border with Syria. It wants to partake in future wars - be it in Africa, against Syria or against Iran - to be there to share in the division of the spoils.
http://www.wsws.org/de/2012/nov2012/maiz-n24.shtml
De Maiziere PROMOTES GERMAN MILITARISM
Written by Martin Novak and Peter Schwarz - http://www.wsws.org
Saturday the 24th November 2012 at 07:32 clock
Ironically, in the Dresden Frauenkirche, German Defence Minister Thomas de Maizière campaigned on 1 November for German militarism. The ruins of the destroyed in 1945 during the Allied air raid on Dresden church had served in the German Democratic Republic as a memorial to the war and has been built up after reunification with international donations.
De Maiziere spoke at the "Forum Frauenkirche" about "perceive international responsibility - Germany's role in the world today." The main room of the church was well filled, some few were scattered in the upper galleries. Among the several hundred listeners several dozen uniformed Persons had joined, which, as the presenter announced, had come under the leadership of their brigadier general from the traditional school of the army officer in Dresden.
Before the lecture began, an elderly man took to the altar, and pointed out that the debris of the house would have remembered a few years ago at German megalomania and German militarist crimes. Now, the minister ready here again before the deployment of German soldiers in the world. He referred to the Kunduz massacre in Afghanistan 2009 that had claimed over a hundred civilian casualties, and protested that in this church war propaganda was being operated.
The man was heckled and booed which grew into a whistling concert, so he had to leave the church. His companion said to the audience: "Shame on you!"
De Maiziere used the ecclesiastical part of the event, to underpin its militarist propaganda with Bible verses, quotes Luther and anti-communist prejudices. He appealed to irrationalism, vague fears and "the trust in faith in a world of uncertainty" to campaign for worldwide deployment of the Bundeswehr as "a key instrument of German security policy."
Anti-militarism, which is after the experience of two world wars rooted in broad social classes, he tried to shake, by focusing on hope and faith convened and condemned any kind of certainty as a characteristic of totalitarian regimes.
"Nazism and Communism," said de Maizière, "were characterized by a worldview that had ready an explanation for everything - and suggested security and certainty, and especially for this certainty demanded relentless followers. But on the promise of absolute certainly showed their totalitarian character - and its contempt for the freedom of the individual. After all, what ultimately total certainty is there on earth? What would we have to get all existential questions complete certain? The result would be oppression."
From this appeal to skepticism, ignorance and religious mysticism spanned an arc of defense for global deployment of the Bundeswehr to fight "in a world of uncertainty" for German interests. "We have become more vulnerable: the world trade and global communication networks can be combined with simple and inexpensive means of interfering," he said, pleading for a common foreign and security policy, the "value-bound and vested interests" and that explicitly military means to include.
De Maiziere concluded his contribution with the call to strengthen the army's back. Their use deserve "social status," he said. "We as a society need to take responsibility for those who take over for Germany's security and interests of certain responsibilities." He called for a public debate in order to create "the necessary awareness" and a "social consensus" produce "so that Germany in its role the world needs today is ".
De Maizière appearance in the Church of Our Lady is part of a broader campaign to improve the image of the armed forces and to win over public opinion for a more aggressive militarism. In an article written by the Minister of Defence on 20 November published in the Berliner Zeitung, he speaks so clearly. He calls for "schools, universities, churches and everywhere, where public debate is at" to discuss German security and defense policy.
The article sees De Maizère defend against the charges of foreign newspapers that the Germans were "militant pacifist and moralizing." He advertises openly for the military defense of economic interests and complains: "The economic interests in our country are sometimes regarded as ethically inferior, as an inadequate defense at all." In fact the economic interests relate to a "German, great-interest ': As the most populous country, as the strongest economy Europe, as the second largest exporter in the world, we Germans are dependent on international stability. "
Background of the propaganda offensive de Maizieres is the profound crisis of world capitalism. In light of Euro crisis and international review to take the tension and conflict between the great powers. The ruling class in Germany has come to the conclusion that they can defend their economic interests only if they also militarily again going strong.
Although 6,000 German soldiers are already at twelve different locations on three continents, the government urges to further Bundeswehr missions in Mali and on the Turkish border with Syria. It wants to partake in future wars - be it in Africa, against Syria or against Iran - to be there to share in the division of the spoils.
http://www.wsws.org/de/2012/nov2012/maiz-n24.shtml