Comments on: European blindness http://antonyloewenstein.com/2007/07/14/european-blindness/ Thu, 24 May 2012 13:43:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: al loomis http://antonyloewenstein.com/2007/07/14/european-blindness/comment-page-1/#comment-196977 al loomis Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:21:20 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2007/07/14/european-blindness/#comment-196977 i'll steal a line from de gaulle: "politics is too important to be left to politicians". that's fair, he was paraphrasing clemenceau. when a nation's prosperity is tied to the leader's prosperity, no 'difficult' decisions will be made. america's economic power is enough to frighten any european leader into silence. indeed, when principled people in the french and canadian ministries reminded the world that aggressive war was a crime by america's own standard, they lost their positions. whistleblowing is a dangerous business if you don't live in a democracy. and no one does, save the swiss. i'll steal a line from de gaulle: "politics is too important to be left to politicians". that's fair, he was paraphrasing clemenceau.

when a nation's prosperity is tied to the leader's prosperity, no 'difficult' decisions will be made. america's economic power is enough to frighten any european leader into silence. indeed, when principled people in the french and canadian ministries reminded the world that aggressive war was a crime by america's own standard, they lost their positions.

whistleblowing is a dangerous business if you don't live in a democracy. and no one does, save the swiss.

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