Now, what, you may well ask has the current European austerity craze got to do with the Vietnam War?
Well, last night there was a very interesting interview on BBC World. It was of the Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. In the course of the interview she alluded to what has gone down in history as one of the most infamous excuses for savage atrocities.
After a village in Vietnam has been completely destroyed by American troops, for no immediately apparent military reason, loud protests went up over the gratuitous carnage of such acts. So the spin doctors, as we call them now, had to come up with some explanation, some excuse. They came up with the following:
We had to destroy the village to save it.
That is exactly what the current wave of European austerity is doing.
Destroying countries, Greece first in line, in order to save them.
May God forgive them for their sins, because nobody else will.