Loose cannons

Issue 

Progress I

"It says much about a country when a decision that will be financially detrimental to its 36 million people is a sign of progress." — Luke Collins, New York columnist for the Australian Financial Review, commenting on the Argentine government's devaluation of the peso.

Progress II

"The Taliban used to hang the victim's body in public for four days. We will only hang the body for a short time, say 15 minutes." — Afghan judge Ahamat Ullha Zarif.

Globalisation

"I think whether the Geneva Convention applies to [captured Australian Taliban fighter David Hicks] is a matter for the United States." — Australian federal attorney-general Daryl Williams.

Genius

"Companies come and go. It's part of the genius of capitalism." — US treasury secretary Paul O'Neil, commenting on the collapse of the US$40 billion Enron energy trading corporation, as a result of which some 20,000 Enron employees have lost their pensions.

From Green Left Weekly, January 23, 2002.
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