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...such change will have to wait at least until after elections in 2009 - and probably longer. "Only through a great political effort will we be able to convince the German public that we are engaged in Afghanistan in order to protect our security in Germany," says Ruprecht Polenz, Christian Democrat chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag. And even if that effort succeeded, there is the awkward question of whether more German troops would help out in the south. "What's the use, given that the German army is a conscript army, and they only have...
...European dream is that its armed forces can specialize in development without having to pick up a gun. "The question is not which of the NATO countries is the toughest, but which strategy is most effective - and that isn't always going into battle," says the Bundestag's Polenz. "The problem," says the ISAF source in Afghanistan, "is that there are those who did not sign up for this. They signed up for something else; for a nation-building, peacekeeping and humanitarian mission. So it's no good saying you have to go down south and fight. They just aren...
...proportion is rising. German banks and companies are a major source of foreign investment in Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe, where turmoil could be costly and disruptive. Not surprisingly, "we have a realistic partnership with Russia, with good cooperation on economic matters," says Ruprecht Polenz, head of the Bundestag's foreign-affairs committee. "When you have good cooperation on the economy, there are opportunities for both sides." Alexander Rahr, a Russia specialist at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, says economic issues have come to predominate. "Merkel can't conduct a pro-human rights, pro-ngo policy toward...
...because of the publication of a new set of Kinsey Institute findings. Those had revealed nothing in particular in a very specific way: 37% of married men and 29% of married women have had at least one affair. Colletti also talked to some bewildered spouses and to counselor Magda Polenz, who gave a stunning vocal impression of Dr. Ruth Westheimer while dispensing hardhearted wisdom ("Some people just can't help themselves...
...Polenz was unavailiable for comment...