[Polybius]

So they lose a TRILLION dollars due to three weeks of war in another country?

That was my first thought.

Funny how the article never explain just how this bizarre economic phenomenon works.

[Leisler]

The Swiss and the Swedes never made any money during the war. Nope. Not a cent.

(insert cricket sounds here)

[jonathanmo]

I think that this kind of report truly shows the lack of reality-based thinking that occurs in the Arab world. The "West" is so utterly alien to them that all they have are just bizarre rantings and ravings. They truly remind me the old "cargo cults"...that's why I dismiss anyone who worries about the "Arab street"... their thinking is truly primitive and shallow and there is no way for us to understand them...