This comes from an instructive New York Times piece by Daniel Altman: By all means, read the rest of it. Mr. Altman makes very clear the folly of trying to build an overseas empire with Other People’s Money — while at the same time insulting, deceiving and alienating those Other People. For sheer down–home smarts, this is right up there with publicly humiliating your banker just when you’re having trouble paying off the mortgage. But at least our creditors may keep Mr. Bush from going much further with his crusade to carry the cross to all the oil patches of the world. :m: Peace.
