The
Irish are as mad as hell and aren’t gonna take it any more. Or so
it would seem watching a transmission from Dáil Éireann (House of
Representatives) in Dublin Wednesday.
Most
parties lambaste the handling of the Euro crisis which is about to
wreak havoc. The Tempest has arrived. France is snarling across the
channel while Angela Merkel is playing Nana to clam down the house.
Meltdown is here. Madame Austerity will soon be knocking her boney
knuckle on everyone’s door. . Politics I know and isn't it
entertaining.
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But
two articles in the press are much more sober and enlightening. One
by Frank Barry, a professor of international business and
development at Trinity College Dublin http://tinyurl.com/c6ulkf8
and the other by the chief of staff the British armed forces
General David Richards http://tinyurl.com/c2psqlu
Frank
Barry sums up the Irish dilemma facing all those rowdy voices in Dáil
Éireann. What comes into the country as a source of money to produce
goods does so from the USA and what goes out of the country in
production is mostly destined for Great Britain. He informs us the
Irish economy is an Atlantic one and as such “ A
fiscal policy harmonized within the Euro area will not synchronize
the Irish business cycle with that of the French-German core. “
So the Irish have it, to stay in and risk destruction or opt out and
ride the storm to happier times. What's a decade to the well-being of
an entire country.
It
is not usual for soldiers to speak in political circles but when they
do it is most often worth listening to. General Richards is quite
blunt in his assessment of the situation.
“I am clear that
the single biggest strategic risk facing the UK today is economic
rather than military,” he
says “Over time,
a thriving economy must be the central ingredient in any UK Grand
Strategy. This is why the eurozone crisis is of such huge importance
not just to the City of London but rightly to the whole country and
to military planners like me.”
So
Chancellor Angela Merkel is right to praise Britain as an important
partner because simply it is. Not only for the Irish but for the
Eurocore Federal States. The newly established Confederate States of
Europe may get new members sooner rather than later. However, the
goal for SuperState remains intact. To form a functioning and safer
German led Eurozone weaker countries can hope to join after this
crisis is over. And, a partner Confederacy should the Franco-German
experiment become too difficult for some weaker nations to join. Two
options but still one Europe. Batten down the hatches Der
Sturm est arrivée
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