On the penultimate and last day of the Munich Euro-Atlantic security conference, there was a special flash "High Lite": The US Senator Joseph "Joe" Lieberman received by Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and Wolfgang Ischinger same two prizes: 1.The large Federal Cross of Merit with star and 2. the Ewald von Kleist Medal (named after the founder of the Conference in 1962 was still "Wehrkundetagung"). Why the choice was calculated on Lieberman?
Wolfgang Gerhardt, Joseph Lieberman and Martin Zeil, at the Munich Conference Sure Heist (Source: Frank Plitt)
Wolfgang Ischinger cited the grounds that he was a "model transatlantic figure". He was a "true friend" of the Munich Security Conference and have led the US delegation for years and used over a long period of German-American relations prevail. Is there more?
The Obama mentor Lieberman is formally a US Democrat, but a real neoconservative politicians with hawkish foreign policy views. In the annals of the Munich Conference Lieberman was a 2010, since it then with his appearance einhandelte a complaint for Auftstachelung to a war of aggression. Lieberman had at the security conference two years ago threatened Tehran with a military strike (" The default "from 6.2.2010):
Federal Cross of Merit with Star for Joseph Lieberman, re. Foreign Minister Westerwelle (Source: Frank Plitt)
"We face a choice: either for hard economic sanctions, so that diplomacy works, or we face military action 'Lieberman said on Saturday at the Munich Security Conference. [...] The US leaders pointed out that the military leadership of the United States have already confirmed such plans in the event that it does not come to a political solution. , No one wants that to happen. But if we do not act together and strong and if we do not do more than just talk, then that is what is going to happen. '"
The blogger Martin Pausch filed a complaint Display: (more ...)
