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It's satisfying to watch the wicked suffer

 
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:59 am    Post subject: It's satisfying to watch the wicked suffer Reply with quote

No, this is not another Sarah Palin thread.

BANKRUPT ROGUES: BEWARE FAILING FOES

FEELING gleeful at the misfortunes of others is an ugly-but-common human characteristic. The world delighted in our crashing economy, then we got our own back as Euro-bankers and Russian billionaires proved at least as greedy as our own money-thugs.

Of all the pleasures to be found in the pain of others, though, none seems more justified than smugness over the panic in Moscow, Caracas and Tehran as oil prices plummet.

We may need to be careful what we wish for.


http://www.nypost.com/seven/10292008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/bankrupt_rogues__beware_failing_foes_135797.htm?page=0
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 5:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's Tom Friedman on a related theme:

Have you seen the reports that Iran�s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is suffering from exhaustion? It�s probably because he is not sleeping at night. I know why. Watching oil prices fall from $147 a barrel to $57 is not like counting sheep. It�s the kind of thing that gives an Iranian autocrat bad dreams.



Here is yet another example (from the same article) why the right doesn't like Friedman--he disses Ronald Reagan without even mentioning him: After all, it was the collapse of global oil prices in the early 1990s that brought down the Soviet Union. And Iran today is looking very Soviet to me.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/opinion/29friedman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 5:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Russia--the BP nonsense got investors running away a while ago.
Igor needed reminding they have to maintain some semblance of transparency and fairness.

Tehran/Caracas--at least the oil they have to import will be cheaper.
I look forward to seeing Ahmadinejad and Chavez turfed to the curb--not without some difficulty however.
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