Angela Merkel's response to the euro crisis is 'doomed to fail' Photo: Bloomberg Whatever Germany Does, The Euro As We Know It Is Dead -- Jeff Randall, The Telegraph
Angela Merkel's ban on short-selling is just a distraction from the horror to come.
"Money can't buy you friends, but it does get you a better class of enemy" – Spike Milligan
For Angela Merkel, leader of the eurozone's richest country, a queue is forming of high-quality adversaries. As she tips German Geld und Gut into the furnace of a rescue package for the euro, while going it alone in a misguided ban on market "manipulators", the brass-neck Chancellor has infuriated domestic voters, angered her EU partners (in particular the French) and invited the so-called wolf pack of global traders to do its worst.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Behind the drama in Europe lies a global crisis -- Edmund Conway, The Telegraph
Turkey, Brazil, & Iran: A Glimpse of the Future -- Ian Lesser, Real Clear World
Iranian diplomacy: The fruits of weakness -- Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Obama the appeaser: The transnational dove has left a vacuum that Iran is filling -- Jeffrey T. Kuhner, Washington Times
Why Our Nuke Policy Doesn't Work -- Leslie Gelb, Daily Beast
The Sinking of the Cheonan -- New York Times editorial
A needed UN response to ship sinking by North Korea -- Christian Science Monitor editorial
Why Would North Korea Sink a South Korean Warship? -- Lisa Camner, The Atlantic
Seoul firing blanks at North Korea -- Donald Kirk, Asia Times
Not just their Big Fat Greek Funeral -- Mark Steyn, MaCleans
Dying for the Karzai Cartel -- Ann Marlowe, National Review
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