>>That's one construction. Another would be that in 2012 there is no excuse not to predict how human beings behave if they have nothing to lose and are able to mobilize. If you're worried about cost, bringing in the troops is an even more expensive way to prevent revolt (as well as eroding the loyalty of the troops if they are asked to stand against their own more than once) but the most expensive of all would be refusing to acknowledge the lessons of history at all.
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>>There is another principle involved here - one should never give in to a blackmailer. All is does is to ensure that the blackmail never ends.
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>In principle I agree esp. when it is formulated clearly as a blackmail -
>one of my anger points with some of greek utterances in €-crisis.

OTOH, there's an equal lot of blackmail on the other side. The first bailout was first rejected, and then "miraculously" passed after some "consideration", which I'd rather call blackmailing. And now it's touted as fully repaid, but then they keep mum about subsequent waves ob bailouts.

And the poor Greeks somehow have to carry out the load of repaying the debts incurred by the Papandreou family's secret negotiations with Goldman Sachs and other such arrangements - while the guilty parties enjoy full protection. Sounds like they managed to blackmail whoever it took to keep them out of the picture.