Posted by sigismund on March 4, 2013, at 15:46:06
In reply to Re: I've become... Political » sigismund, posted by sleepygirl2 on March 3, 2013, at 22:31:02
>Do you suppose there's a country that's doing a good job?
You'd be a bit hard pressed at the moment to find one. A lot of Europe seems out with the whole austerity thing that has lead to 55% youth unemployment in Spain, for example. Italy's politics has been awful for ages, though I do like Grillo (sp?), at least from a distance. Iceland responded to the GFC intelligently, I think.
Arlo Guthrie is visiting, and was on the radio talking about supporting the Pauls. His guitars were impounded coming in here and he had a libertarian response. It is interesting how easily it was assumed in the US that a maximum kind of foreign intervention policy was the right way to go. That goes back to WWII. I enjoyed Leonard Cohen singing 'I haven't felt this good since WWII', or something like that.
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