Will the Germans ever be sane again?

Forty-eight per cent of Germans believe that the United States is more dangerous than Iran.

Thirty-one percent believe the opposite.

Are the Germans, as a people, absolutely nuts? Having gone to seminary with some of what was at the time the younger generation of Germans (mostly exchange students from the missionseminar at Neuendettelsau), I've been tempted to suspect as much for some time. Certainly the worldview of my German classmates at Wartburg Seminary tended toward the laughably perverse, especially where the United States was concerned.

But then, so did the worldview of my American classmates.

Here is an article (in English) from the online edition of Der Speigel, which argues what to me has been obvious for some time: that Germans have a grotestquely distorted concept of America and Americans, and especially of our role in the world- and badly need to be re-educated.