John E. Peters is right: America’s European NATO allies are debellicized (Letters, Nov. 21). This especially applies to my country, Germany, which is still suffering from the post-World War II fallacy that “militarism” had led to the genocidal World War II, when in fact something hugely more sinister was its primary cause: Germany’s embrace of the gospel of national superiority and racial hate. Perpetuating the “militarism cliché,” successive German governments since reunification have treated their armed forces with foolish neglect, while much of the German public holds soldiers in disdain. This feel-good reaction to...