We know about Joseph Biden and his words, and not only about his barking. We know about EU words, like French officials saying that "our children won't laugh anymore" and so on. We know it...
And here are some earlier enemies speaking in more respectful manners:
Field Marshal Mackensen to German troops before the attack on Serbia(WWI):
"You do not depart in any Italian or the Russian or the French front. You are going into battle against a new enemy, a dangerous, tough, courageous and sharp. You are starting on the Serbian front and on Serbia, and the Serbs are a nation that loves freedom above everything else and who fights and sacrifices to the last. Be careful that this small nation do not darken your glory nor to compromise past successes of the famous German army."
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Daily order of the German Emperor Wilhelm to his troops before going on Serbia(WWI):
"Heroes! I send you to war against a small but very brave people. To the Serbs, who during three recent and very tough battle with Turkey, Bulgaria and Austro-Hungarian Empire gave the world the most persuasive evidence of the great military virtues and abilities, and who are on their flags, bespattered with blood, in-scripted for four years just unbeatable and most famous victories."
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THE LAST SERMON OF FRIEDRICH GRIESENDORF,
A German Clergyman(protestant pastor; May, 1945)
He was at one time a court clergyman for the German Kaiser, Wilhelm II. After World War II, he was a pastor in the Eversburg church parish where a camp of Serbian prisoners of war was located. Before retiring, he dedicated these lines to his German parishioners:
"Our country lost the war. The English, Americans and Russians won. Maybe they had much better equipment, larger armies, better leadership. In reality, it was an explicit material victory. They took the victory. However, here among us is one nation that won another more beautiful victory, a victory of the soul, a victory of the heart and honesty, a victory of peace and Christian love. THEY ARE THE SERBS. We knew them earlier, some a little and some not at all. But we all knew what we did in their homeland. We killed hundreds of the Serbs who defended their country for one of our soldiers who represented the occupier -- the oppressor. And not only that, we looked favorably when others shot at Serbs from all sides; The Croatians, the Italians, Albanians, Bulgarians and Hungarians. Yet we knew that among us in the prisoner of war camps were 5,000 Serbian officers, who earlier were the elite of the society and, who now resembled living skeletons, exhausted and spent from hunger. We knew that among the Serbs smoldered the belief 'He who does not revenge is not sanctified'."
"We are truly afraid of the revenge by these Serbian martyrs. We were afraid that after our capitulation they would do what we did to them. We imagined murder, plunder, rape, demolition and destruction of our homes. However, what happened? When the barbed wires were torn down and 5,000 Serbian skeletons found themselves free in our midst, those skeletons caressed our children. Only now can we understand why our greatest poet, Goethe, studied the Serbian language. Only now can we comprehend why the last word for Bismark, on his deathbed, was -- 'SERBIA.' That kind of victory is more sublime than a material victory. It seems to me that only the Serbs could win such a victory, being brought up in their St. Sava's spirit and epic poetry, which our Goethe loved so much. This victory will live for centuries in the souls of us Germans. I want to dedicate my last clergyman's sermon to that victory and the Serbs who won it."
NOTE: When Father Griesendorf said "This [moral] victory will live for centuries in the souls of us Germans" he had no idea that not only would German memory not last "for centuries" but the German sense of morality would not let German memory last even half a century. In 1999, German Luftwaffe, as a part of NATO aviation contributed in bombing Serbia, day and night, for 78 days. That was the third unprovoked attack of Germany on the Serbian people in the same century.
