Letter From Athens: SYRIZA's Circle of Confusion

The first rule of politics: Never Ask For A Vote You?re Going To Lose. That?s why U.S. President Barack Obama wisely backed off asking the Congress to approve his wish to launch an attack on Syria for using chemical weapons to kill thousands of people, mostly women and children. He didn?t have the votes. That led to Russian President Vladimir Putin also becoming President of the United States and setting foreign policy for Obama, who ? like former shameless Greek Prime Ministers George Papandreou and Costas Karamanlis was forced to take a back seat ? but that?s another matter. Major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras, who's been floundering in his attempt to convince the populace to rise up against Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' coalition government, has been taking a bigger licking than a Timex watch, but he just keeps on ticking although he doesn?t know the time of day.

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