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Posted on 12/28/2011 1:28:41 PM PST by iowamark
The euro crisis seems to vindicate her skepticism, and with serendipitous timing, she's on the big screen in a biopic, played by Meryl Streep.
A British Prime Minister, splendidly isolated, faces down a phalanx of scowling European leaders, all harrumphing censure in accents that are German, French, Italian. We've witnessed the scene before. Decades ago Margaret Thatcher warred with her European counterparts just as David Cameron did this month in refusing to yield control of national budgets to Brussels. The difference is that the Iron Lady did not speak softly when she wielded a big stick. She lambasted ambitious bureaucrats; the artificial Utopian megastate you want to build, she told them, will be a "tower of Babel" dominated by Germany and riven by economic crises. Though she was ousted in 1990 over her refusal to join the monetary union, her skepticism seems to be vindicated with every euro crisis. December 2011 is very much Maggie's moment, and with serendipitous timing, she's there on the big screen in a biopic, The Iron Lady, portrayed with preternatural realism by Meryl Streep.
A British Prime Minister, splendidly isolated, faces down a phalanx of scowling European leaders, all harrumphing censure in accents that are German, French, Italian. We've witnessed the scene before. Decades ago Margaret Thatcher warred with her European counterparts just as David Cameron did this month in refusing to yield control of national budgets to Brussels. The difference is that the Iron Lady did not speak softly when she wielded a big stick. She lambasted ambitious bureaucrats; the artificial Utopian megastate you want to build, she told them, will be a "tower of Babel" dominated by Germany and riven by economic crises. Though she was ousted in 1990 over her refusal to join the monetary union, her skepticism seems to be vindicated...
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Streep was one of the Hollywood airheads who testified before Congress about farming because she had played a farmer's wife once, wasn't she?
Amanda Foreman is the author of “A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War.”
http://www.amazon.com/World-Fire-Britains-Crucial-American/dp/037550494X/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1
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Just wait....the same bedwetting Liberal Free Trader Commie Globalists....who push stuff like the EU and Euro...will start trashing Margaret Thatcher en masse
Dame Margaret was 100% correct on the Euro....yet you still have a lot of RINO GOP who push for having the “Amero” for North America.
And, it was the Commie Globalists in her own party that ran out Dame Margaret over the Euro.
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I have never heard of the so-called "Amero" anywhere other than on FR -- and it's been a couple years since I've read of it here. And if you think Communists are free-traders, your knowledge of history is nil.
But it's probably safe to assume Meryl Streep is an airhead.
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