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Where are we going from here? | 102 comments (102 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

They are parasites off the big countries (none / 1)

they survive because too many (influential) people there are happy to have them around. If you kill that support in the big countries, it's VERY easy to strangle the small countries.

right after 9/11 would have been the perfect moment to clean all the offshore center off the table - they would not have said a peep for fear of provoking the beserk hyperpower bent on beating the shit out of anyone in its way.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Fri Sep 26th, 2008 at 06:03:09 AM EST
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Re: They are parasites off the big countries (none / 1)

I agree that that would have been a good time, and this might be a similar good time coming up if only because this will affect many more countries, The question is how do you get the support in all of the big countries?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Sep 26th, 2008 at 06:14:20 AM EST
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