Commentary The former German Foreign Minister, (1998-2005) and Green Party leader, Joschka Fischer, published a column on July 23 that, perhaps inadvertently, well summarizes the confused strategic worldview of the traditional German political parties, which is steadily diverging from the interests of the United States. Fischer like more than 95 percent of other Germans who have an opinion on these things, recognizes the monstrous wickedness of the Nazi regime, and accepts the fact that it had to be destroyed and Germany had to be unconditionally and overwhelmingly defeated in World War II, ultimately for its own good as much as for the sake of any other country. He acknowledges that only the military guarantee of the United States kept Stalin and his successors out of Western Europe. Fischer glosses over the fact that the French tried to veto German entry into NATO and even Winston Churchill’s Great Britain heavily burdened …