Opportunity

Critics abound; there’s always noise from the cheap seats when things get tough in the arena. Thus, one must be careful to judge.  We’re not sure we could handle things any better than Barroso and the other EU types.  But from the comfort of the keyboard, one thing is clear – they’re deer-in-the-headlights, every one.

We noted much earlier, and refreshed the other day that it is either fiscal union or the end. And the end may be a good deal more frightening than most expect.  This is because extremists, especially leftists, are revolting at the mere hint of austerity. Already Greek types are casting the Germans as Nazis (as they beg for even more German money).

For many, lurking just backstage, this is the opportunity of a lifetime.

We will see, are seeing in fact a lead up to WWI all over again - the blame game so typical of European politics. It is time to invent an enemy, just as the Muslim troglodytes know exactly how to invent a diversion, a camouflage for their blunders. For these thugs, it is the West; for failed E-Z states, it is Germany.  Right now, the weak and incoherent - most of Europe, are damning the unified and solvent - Germany; they, who have done almost everything wrong and Germany who has done almost everything right.

The final step in this choreography - to be interrupted only if the German culture suddenly remakes itself to accept flip flops at work, 3 hour naps, and chronic tax cheating as a national pastime, and abandons its meritocracy and the rule of law for self indulgence and cynicism - will be the appearance of another Mussolini, or Franco, or a Metaxas, just this time in a pin stripe suit.


Robert Craven