Wednesday, November 30, 2011

In An Age Of Peace Why Are War Clouds In The Horizon

Riots in Greece

Threat Of War Seems Unreal In An Age Of Peace -- Gideon Tachman, Business Day

Although the risk of a severe economic crisis is very real, I don’t believe that we are at risk of sliding back into war

COULD things go bad again? I mean really bad — Great Depression bad, world war bad? The kind of cataclysmic event my generation has learned to think belongs only in the history books. There is certainly a sense of foreboding in Europe at the moment. Speaking in Berlin last night, Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski warned: "We are standing on the edge of a precipice." President Nicolas Sarkozy of France cautioned recently: "If the euro explodes, Europe would explode. It’s the guarantee of peace in a continent where there were terrible wars."

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My Comment: History has an annoying habit of repeating itself .... and Europe has a long history in which war and conflict was always the rule .... not the exception.

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