Carrol:
>> "The outcome is devastation and despair, of course. And it's hard to see the
>> Germans changing."
>>
>> Nonsense. What's to despair? Enjoy the battle, winning or losing.
Doug:
> You're out there in fucking Illinois, where the unemployment rate is 9%, far from Greece or Spain, where it's like 25%. Easy for you to say.
And easier still when you're not even among the 9%, but a comfortably retired professor of English literature vicariously "enjoying the battle" from behind a keyboard in a small town far removed from the loci of the crisis. The limitless self-delusion of the well-intentioned...