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Krugman: spot on .. "The point is that the prospect of disaster, no matter how obvious, is no
guarantee that nations will do what it takes to avoid that disaster. And this is especially
true when pride and prejudice make leaders unwilling to see what should be obvious."

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Yours came in as i was reading your After America
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/07/09/120709fa_fact_filkins ..
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=77206602 .. was thinking +/-%$*& if only Massoud,
Dostum, et al (vicious tribal fighter blasts from the past) could understand they could be in an Afghanistan parliament,
just talk and pass laws AND still be as rich and powerful as they are now .. well .. as rich anyway, or almost ..
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Yup, it is "something of a shock" to understand that two years^ of "fiscal austerity and “internal devaluation”
(basically, wage cuts) would solve the problems of debtor nations." .. "no success stories" to boot ..

"So will Europe save itself? The stakes are very high, and Europe’s leaders are, by and large, neither evil nor stupid.
But the same could be said, believe it or not, about Europe’s leaders in 1914. We can only hope that this time is different."

Yup, and the same can be said for the tribal leaders of Afghanistan, i reckon .. parliament, drinks and prosperity? .. or....