Subject: Share the View -- on Bismarck's Return and Japan's Bad Year
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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 05:21:01 -0500

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A Quick Look at Bloomberg News's Opinion Section for March 6,  2012

   How can a crisis-ridden Europe return to stability? View op-ed contributor
   Harold James thinks Otto von Bismarck should ride to the rescue. "A familiar
   specter is haunting Europe: How to live with a powerful Germany that seems
   to act according to its own interests, and whose policies are driven by
   domestic politics," writes James. "Headlines across Europe are stoking old
   fantasies and fears. Yet, this time, the appropriate answer to that question
   is surprising, even shocking. The best way to deal with a resurgent Germany
   is for its partners and neighbors to imitate the institutional features,
   including monetary and fiscal stability, that have made that country so
   successful and powerful."[2] Link.
   It's been a year since Japan was pounded by a tsunami and the Fukushima
   nuclear plant threatened to reanimate Godzilla. But View columnist Willie
   Pesek doesn't consider it an anniversary. "Anniversaries commemorate events
   in the past, ones for which there is a modicum of closure," he writes.
   "Radiation is still venting into the air around Fukushima. Makeshift
   equipment, some held in place by tape, is keeping vital reactor systems
   operating. Is Japan’s 3/11 history? Not unless we change the
   definition. What the first anniversary of the disaster requires is a dose of
   accountability. We need a few good perp walks by current and past Tokyo
   Electric Power Co. executives, whose arrogance, negligence and corruption
   sent radiation clouds Tokyo’s way. Next on the docket should be the
   government officials who enabled what more closely resembles an organized
   crime syndicate than an energy sector." [3]Link.
     Links:
       2. http://bloom.bg/wCnAha
       3. http://bloom.bg/ws8xU2

   Columnist Margaret Carlson thinks the G.O.P. is going to be hit by its own
   tsunami -- outraged women voters:  "Blame Rush Limbaugh if you want -- and I
   will, later, at the risk of being 'Fluked' -- for the uproar over
   contraception. But the real culprit is the leadership of the Republican
   Party, which snatched defeat (the Blunt amendment, which would have let any
   boss decide what insurance coverage suits his conscience) from the jaws of
   victory (the president’s compromise with Catholic bishops over such
   coverage). You have to wonder if the party that has been obsessed with lady
   parts for the better part of a month can bring enough women and independents
   home in November to beat President Barack Obama." [4]Link.
     Links:
       4. http://bloom.bg/wJryhz

   Attorney General Eric Holder got mostly pans for his much-hyped terrorism
   speech on Monday, but the View editors looked a little deeper and found a
   few things worth remarking on. "It was notable -- and promising -- that
   Holder, who has long championed the use of civilian courts to try terrorism
   suspects, adamantly defended the military commission system in place at
   Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a complement to criminal trials," they write. "The
   much-derided military system has been gradually refined over the last
   decade, Holder noted, making it a legitimate forum for justice in the age of
   terrorism." Link.

   Also, the editors don't like the looks of Libor; columnist Peter Orszag
   looks at the myths of moonlighting; and op-ed contributor Robert Shiller has
   the next installment on Wall Street sleaze.

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