[pgkdan]

It's akin to plugging the relief valve on a pressure cooker because one doesn't want to address the unsightly steam.

And in this case the attendant reaction will be just as explosive. It's going to blow apart in Europe first...with any luck it will be loud enough and violent enough to open eyes on the side of the Atlantic.

An before any sensitive types seek to chastize me for my thought expressed above...I'm not wishing this on Europe, I just think it's inevitable.

[Tench_Coxe]

"And in this case the attendant reaction will be just as explosive. It's going to blow apart in Europe first...with any luck it will be loud enough and violent enough to open eyes on the side of the Atlantic."

There is a bright side, in a grim sort of way: If it does blow on this side of the Atlantic, that might create the impetus to 'clean house', as it were. ( Sorry, I was listening to Dick "Head" Durbin this morning )

[Renderofveils]

with any luck it will be loud enough and violent enough to open eyes on the side of the Atlantic.

I sincerely doubt anything can open the eyes of the American ostrich (Laevus ignavus)