I still think that Le Pen's showing has negative long term implications. If in the final elections next month he gets more than 25%, i would be really worried.
Zeev, I don't think Le Pen has anything to do with recent action in the U.S. equities markets, but as a human being I agree heartily that any significant showing by him in the regular election is quite worrisome.
Without delving too deeply into politics, I feel compelled to say that, IMHO, anti-semitism is alive and well and living all over Europe, and this fact has been used to great effect by bin Laden, Arafat, and their Islamist-terrorist brethren.
I've already said too much, so I'll shut up now.
augie.
p.s. People around here love to label, so let me head them off:
1. I am not anti-European, but I am an unapologetic Anglophile, so I sometimes look askance at those Europeans who lack either the common sense to be British -- God save the Queen, and God rest the Queen Mum; a grand lady if there ever was one! -- or the genetic luck to be Italian.
2. I am not anti-Muslim, nor am I anti-Arab, but I am strongly pro-Jew and pro-Israel, and I think that the Whore-House of Saud is the chief enemy the U.S. faces in the world today. |
