Italy was unable to prosecute an American pilot who killed dozens of people when the tail of his plane severed the cable of a funicular at a ski resort. Apparently American pilots at a US base in Italy amused themselves by flying between the gound and the cable, and the Italian government's protests were ignored.

An armored vehicle ran over two South Korean schoolgirls and the US refused to allow the crew to be prosecuted.

And on and on and on.

If this is what the US military does to US allies, what won't they do to other people, like the Iraqis?

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker