'Delivering French banks into the hands of Islamic imperialists is a high price for bailing out Athenian deadbeats,' Mark Steyn

9/24/11, "Global Bust-Up," Mark Steyn, National Review

"On the other hand, attempting to postpone the Club Med welfare junkies’ rendezvous with self-extinction will destabilize internal German politics (which always adds to the gaiety of nations) and strain to breaking point what’s left of the European banking system. BNP Paribas, formerly Saddam’s favorite banker and Gallicly insouciant about who it climbs into bed with, was reported in recent days to be cruising the flusher sheikhdoms and emirates in search of a new sugar daddy. Delivering French banks into the hands of Islamic imperialists seems

• a high price to pay for bailing out Athenian deadbeats."...(para. 6)

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