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Hugging Former Enemies: Would You Invite Bin Laden To Remember 9/11?

December 3, 2009

Hugging Former Enemies: Would You Invite Bin Laden To Remember 9/11Thomas Mathew writes: There is something strange in British Ministry of Defence’s invitation to German Luftwaffe to participate in celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. As in planes flying in formation, I mean.

Don’t get me wrong: I’m all for forgiving and forgetting and all that ‘hug your former enemy till he starts to like you’, but this thing with the Luftwaffe getting involved in the BoB celebrations somehow makes me wonder whether it’s a good idea. It’s a bit like inviting the Japanese navy to take part in celebrating the anniversary of Pearl Harbour. Or asking the US Air Force to do a flypast over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, at relevant dates. Or, if you pardon me for being blunt, like inviting Osama Bin Laden and his boys to be present at the anniversary of 9/11.

How would you feel if Osie turned up in New York to mark the occasion? Some things just do not go together. They don’t mix well, if you know what I mean.

So that you know, the big occasion to honour the Battle of Britain will be commemorated in a spectacular flypast on July 17 and 18 in 2010 at the Royal International Tattoo at RAF Fairford. The MoD has happily informed us that a delegation from the organising committee of the Royal International Tattoo has visited the German embassy in London last month to invite the Luftwaffe. It was probably a sombre occasion, conducted in the spirit of the new federal Europe in which Germany and France are now running things. The people from the MoD probably figured that now that the Germans run all the finances it makes sense to be nice to them, whatever happened in the past.

Incidentally, the Italian air force, which flew alongside the Luftwaffe back in 1940, has also been invited to join in. I bet Winston Churchill would have been proud to hear about it. I mean about the Luftwaffe and the Italians getting an invite to the big BoB bash. Churchill, by the way, said in his time that kicking German arse in the Battle of Britain – Churchill was very unPC when he spoke, you know – was crucial to winning the Second World War. The battle lasted around four months and became the first ever major military campaign to be fought entirely in the air.

Without wishing to bore you to death by historical facts I would still like to list the countries that fought side by side or assisted Britain, in one way or another. Here goes: Poland, New Zealand, Canada, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic and Slovakia), Australia, Belgium, South Africa, France, Ireland, the US, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Palestine Mandate (now Israel) Barbados and Jamaica. So as you see the MoD was spoilt for choice in electing the guest nations. Could have skipped Germany and Italy, to be honest. Or at least could have just invited the generals to stand on the ground and watch the mighty flypast so that they never get the same silly ideas again. Ever.

And one more thing: the current lot that runs the European Union seems to think that if we all cosy up to each other and get rid of all the borders and national distinction there would never be a war in Europe again. Because, as they think in Brussels, there would be nothing to fight over.

Big mistake that. Once you start forcing people to forget their past, it’s bound to backfire at some point. And it will, trust me, it will.

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  1. Annie on December 3rd, 2009 3:18 am

    I wish Germany would go away. The name invokes bad memories. Now say Canada and people think , oh those wuzzes, useless but friendly nation so I hope Canada got an invite to this fancy bash. As for Osie, I hope he dropped dead in a cave somewhere. I ‘ll hug a German before I hug that ba**ard.

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