Kraut, I think you will find BLE's quote was meant to be a simile/metaphor (its in the dictionary) as to silverfox's outlook on this particular discussion. It doesn't read as a personal attack, nor is this. By the way, I wish my German was as good as both your and silverfox's English!
Silverfox, read Kraut's post again, he isn't agreeing with you, just expressing surprise at the tone of the disagreement as he understood it. I tried to explain that the basing policy isn't as UK centred as you perceive it to be, and overall it has evolved into something a lot better than it was and reasonably fair to all. You obviously don't want to see it as such, so i can agree to disagree, if you can.
For others interested in this topic it isn't as bad as it is portayed by some. It isn't perfect, but once you are in you just have to wait in line for the base of choice to come up.