Guttenberg - and now? Well, I have long quarreled with me if I say something about our defense or not. Actually, I preferred to remain silent, but then I received a mail from Taiwan, who is a friend, there was surprise that I keep my door.
Very well, then I will but a handful of observations going on:
before - and I mean recent - to Guttenberg excitement I have often wondered, where is related to its advocates so. I took the view, found in my circle do not - and in some cases was quite wrong. That was my first disappointment. My second
is that a nominally conservative Chancellor, introduced a peculiar split between two areas of life, that between scientific and political work, or even more, a boundary between work (Defense) and private life (dissertation), moved in this manner then quite difficult to be drawn.
It is drawn in particular are so difficult, because the political work of many people (not least just to the Chancellor and the Minister of Defence) very dramatically on the private lives of other effects (the abolition of conscription, but also the sending of soldiers depressed areas are examples of this). Moreover, it seems at least questionable, just like this must be considered that are completely independent of political work in the decisions made by personal beliefs and character of the decision makers or even be based on nothing but sober reason. They simply do not usually. Politicians are no better or worse people. They are bred not in secret underground farms and released after the attainment of a corresponding maturity on an unsuspecting population.
What Guttenberg unquestionably the case making it interesting is that it causes for all involved violent emotions. Why? Probably because no other (federal Republican) politicians Guttenberg has directed his work and creative subconscious use of the mass media as one event after another, and a dramatic climax after another, knowingly (if not intentionally).
who now claims it would only now publicly criticizing Guttenberg's behavior to be practiced, so that ultimately proves only that he had either a deaf ear to the earlier criticism that he or she - has not taken note of - for whatever reason . Guttenberg is already since the financial crisis again in the criticism (in more detail since the former discussion of how and whether the state could Opel back on its feet).
A little side note: Even the action, Guttenberg would be the first politician whose doctoral thesis examination by the public would have to withstand reflects only the fact that the plaintiff would otherwise appear only in limited deals with political events of the day - our current Minister for Family Affairs had not, for example, not too long ago just a little malice for her dissertation plug.
No, ultimately, for those who presented themselves as publicly as Guttenberg did it, does not have to wonder, also offers lots of attack surface. Now there are even any form of chaste nudity, and unlike most nudist beach does not, unfortunately, the rule "Who's . Bothers you want but look the other simply "The horror, can tackle the one hand, if the events can be the last few weeks pass in review, feeds also on - over here as over there across the political spectrum - that Guttenberg was reckless or naive enough to leave all shells fall, although he himself would most need to know that during his striptease not only the beautiful will be defoliated.
One may find disturbing or not to have a plagiarist sit on the chair of Defence. At a reckless or naive defense minister, however, it is worthwhile to respond with due skepticism.
