Comments on: Anti-Canute https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/08/06/anti-canute/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:00:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: Minivet https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/08/06/anti-canute/comment-page-1/#comment-3982 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:00:50 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=417#comment-3982 t know the first thing about how 21st Century economies actually work.</i> From your description above, they don't know how 19th-century economies work either.]]> The people now inside the circle of power who have ostensible responsibility for economic policy honestly don’t know the first thing about how 21st Century economies actually work.

From your description above, they don’t know how 19th-century economies work either.

]]> By: Withywindle2 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/08/06/anti-canute/comment-page-1/#comment-3978 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:40:31 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=417#comment-3978 And as Zimbabwe descends into mass famine? At what point does its present become worse than all possible consequences? … but I put on my Russian hat: If not that, then What Is To Be Done?

]]> By: Doug https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/08/06/anti-canute/comment-page-1/#comment-3977 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:39:33 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=417#comment-3977 A random comment from someone whose area is Germany: Things can always get worse.

]]> By: Timothy Burke https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/08/06/anti-canute/comment-page-1/#comment-3975 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:35:32 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=417#comment-3975 No. Because it wouldn’t accomplish anything as well as have immediately destructive (and expensive) consequences. You can’t fix what’s wrong just by eliminating Mugabe.

]]> By: Withywindle2 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/08/06/anti-canute/comment-page-1/#comment-3971 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:47:55 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=417#comment-3971 Not that I particularly favor it right now–but would you support a unilateral, armed American intervention to remove Mugabe?

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