Judah Grunstein connects the financial mess to European troop presence in Afghanistan:
It's hard to see how calls for increased European defense spending and NATO troop deployments are going to go over well in the context of a global financial crisis caused by what amounts to the worst elements of American predatory capitalism.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/10/meltdown-drawdown/210870/
