Back to the Atlantic Alliance

This is a great and encouraging article in the Washington Times about Germany returning to the fold, and of the greatest alliance in world history that defeated communism and restored freedom to Eastern Europe. Here's an exert:

"BERLIN -- The conservative Christian Democrats and their Free Democratic partners will restore Germany's alliance with the United States and downgrade Berlin's ties with Russia if they win elections in September, leaders from both parties say. In a series of interviews, they also said that they would review their alliance with France, which they intend to keep strong, but warn Paris not to challenge Berlin to choose between the United States and France, as was the case with the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Wolfgang Schaeuble, deputy chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) parliamentary group who is in charge of foreign policy, accused Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a Social Democrat, of undermining trans-Atlantic ties."

Schaeuble goes on to blast Schroeder for his abandoning the Alliance:

"It is not acceptable that the German government is often very critical of Washington -- sometimes rightfully so -- but stays silent on Russian violations of legal matters," he said. "For example, Mr. Schroeder had nothing to criticize about the verdict in the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky."

Remember John Kerry's apologetic plea for America to go back to the old ways of dealing with Europe. This proves WE weren't the ones who left, as I argued HERE. Barring a catastophe, we may hope to see such sound leadership in September when Germany votes for a new government.