Without the heroic and heavy losses from the Americans' intervention in World War II, a free, reunited Germany would not exist — and that’s not all. What would we be without the U.S.A.?
From now on, Europeans can apply for undesirable search results to be deleted. This is a pleasing signal. However, the new guidelines should not also allow Google to cement its market power.
Cases like those of the Shanghai troop can remind people worldwide that even Internet criminals must descend from their virtual worlds and face the very real, earthly justice system.
In the allegedly mannerless United States, these so-called universal codes of conduct have been retained, something we in Germany can only dream of these days.
The symbol of the first black in the White House is essential to changing an image of America tarnished by eight years of BushÂ’s presidency. But the euphoria carries with it a risk of deception.