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Let’s face it. Putting Greece on a sound footing is like cleaning out the Augean stables, with one difference. The stables were cleaned by Hercules, but we have a midget at the helm. Calling the Brussels mob names should be left to people like yours truly, not to those who sit across the table and negotiate. The Syriza gang thought that countries act the way they did in the Athens cafés they used to frequent. Voices are raised, threats are made, drinks are overturned, then people shake hands and everyone goes home to their grotty wives. Well, not exactly. Syriza and the media that supports it have been playing the victim since its inception. (Like Likud.) The fact that the Germans paid war reparations more than 50 years ago is immaterial to many Greeks. Another fact, that it was successive Greek governments democratically elected that signed on the dotted line for the present disputed loans, is also immaterial to many of my countrymen and -women. Hence the fact that the Greeks are left with few allies among other European sufferers, namely the Spanish and the Italians. When one plays the clown one gets pies thrown at him, said the Greek philosopher Taki in 400 BC.

So by the time the gentle Takimag readers have this priceless piece in front of them, modern Hellas might be out of the shithole, but not for long. The Greek bureaucracy will find a way to cheat and beat the system. The Greek character used to blame the Gods, and later Uncle Sam. Now it’s Angela Merkel, the Ilse Koch of today, according to some restrained Greek press articles. The mother of Western civilization, Hellas, is now reduced to hurling insults and playing the victim. As they say down south, oy vey!