Soros recently passed much of the fund’s management to his two grown sons, Robert and Jonathan, but under his direction it rejected the prevailing orthodoxy about the rationality of the market in favor of the notion that markets were prone to chaos and distortions stemming from human error.
Whether Soros's intention is pure or not. That note about Soros profiting from market chaos and distortions is clearly a conflict of interest. If you were paranoid, you'd think the contradiction in Soros' regard for Reagan and support for Kerry has ulterior motives behind it.
Simply put, that's what folks like me would think : that a JK administration would be (1) human error, (2) chaotic, and (3) prone to distortions stemming from (1). The template is Chamberlain.
Soros should understand Chamberlain, Hungary is not that far from Czechoslovakia. What Chamberlain did that day in 1938 surely must sear deep into Czech culture. Heck they even share a common history. Hungary in 1956, and Czechoslovakia in 1968.
There are checks and balances in the US. Congress and the people are not blind sheep, just as there are limits to how far down the river a JK's multilateralist administration can sell Israel, there is also limits to how GWB's administration can suddenly become warmongers.
Beyond this possible range of options, vast majority of americans and the legislative branch will follow the executive branch down neither paths. Nor will they be allowed to.
However, the range of possible paths is clearly a wide one, and there is some pain ahead if you don't believe in either direction to take. It's just not as wide as Soros claims to think it is. |
