{"id":52,"date":"2005-02-14T00:31:16","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T05:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/?p=52"},"modified":"2022-03-29T18:54:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T23:54:06","slug":"europe-thy-name-is-cowardice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2005\/02\/14\/europe-thy-name-is-cowardice\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe, thy name is cowardice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in November, Mathias D\u00f6pfner (CEO of German publisher Axel Springer AG) wrote a scathing editorial regarding European appeasement. (Thanks to Mom.)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welt.de\/data\/2004\/11\/20\/363020.html\">original article<\/a> is written in German, as you&#8217;d probably expect, but thanks to Altavista and Systran, you can get a good idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/babelfish.altavista.com\/babelfish\/trurl_pagecontent?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.welt.de%2Fdata%2F2004%2F11%2F20%2F363020.html&amp;lp=de_en\">what the author said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: There is an English translation floating around that inflates a couple of the details. Why people do this, I have no idea, but fortunately it doesn&#8217;t change the message. Snopes has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/politics\/soapbox\/dapfner.asp\">the scoop<\/a>, with the somewhat inaccurate but more readable translation floating around in email.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in November, Mathias D\u00f6pfner (CEO of German publisher Axel Springer AG) wrote a scathing editorial regarding European appeasement. (Thanks to Mom.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}