Greens Promote German Militarism by Max B. Sawicky 25 April 2002 00:40 UTC
Can anybody explain this, starting with, is it true? mbs ^^^^^^^ CB: Jim Heartfield told us so :>) =============================== World Socialist Web Site, 4/24 Germany's Green Party demands a powerful professional army In the course of the current debate in Germany over the future of the country's conscript army, the Green Party has emerged as the most vehement proponent of the re-emergence of German militarism and advocate of a professional army. In a thesis paper published in the Frankfurter Rundschau, Winfried Nachtwei, who represents the Greens in the Defence Committee of the German parliament, declared that for its international military interventions (in the jargon of the Greens: "multilateral crisis-resolution") the German army requires "highly professional" and "rapidly deployable forces". Current requirements can no longer be satisfied by a conscript army, they argue. -clip-
