Straw Man, and off topic..again. Actually, Nevil Chamberlin comes to mind more than Adolph. Adolph was at least a competent socialist
The topic of your original post on this thread had nothing to do with Irish exposure to the US economy, or US debt. Those pointa really aren't in contention, although the author confuses consumer debt with T-bills, but whatever.
The point in contention is whether the editorial slant of this author would lead to an armed conflict between the US and Europe. History, and the Public sentiment of the European Left (US Most dangerous Rogue State, EU needs to militarily counter ect) bares out my point. If we are a threat to global peace and prosperity, it is only the lack of will on Europe to do something about it. Chamberlin, not Hitler.
You may find this surprising, but here in europe we have this thing called "freedom of speech" as well. Just like in america, crackpots are allowed hold forth in obscure blogs on whatever topic they choose, and the rest of the population is perfectly happy to ignore them.
I admit that my original response was quite an angry one as to see someone speculating "if X then WAR WITH EUROPE!!" really p***** me off. If Ralph Nader ran the world we'd all have to adopt trees. It's not gonna happen!
You speak of "straw men" but this entire thread is one.