Funny is that you will never have a Free Trader Communist Globalist in the US look objectively at why the EU continues to crash....and that the Iceland model of handling the Failure of Free Trade (which is what is really happening in the EU...Failure of Free Trade) is a much better remedy than the Free Trader recommended and used taxpayer-subsidized Bank Bailouts and seizure of private funds/property to temporarily stabilize economies.
I just hope Iceland is careful when dealing with Communist China...US Free Traders sure have not)
Being anti-free trade is left wing...I am surprised to see such sentiments in FreeRepublic. Of course, giving free trade deal can though be useful to support your friends and punishing enemies, and you certeinly have enriched the Chineese and their communist masters especially, which may have been a stratetig mistake.
The failure of the EU is that it is not a free trade area that allows it countries to be independent, but a custom union to prevent free trade from abroad and subjecting the countries under a single, undemocratic rule with a political union.