Losers
: A former adviser to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl — getting ready for the next campaign, clearly — says Germany blew it:
Despite the announcement of plans to create a European army along with France, Belgium, and Luxembourg, Germany is less relevant in both European and world politics than it was before the Iraq war. Repairing the damage will not be easy. Every part of Germany’s international position has been wounded by the Iraq war.
