If you think this is about 'teaching a few Greeks a lesson', then you really don't understand the severity and complexity of the current situation. The Greeks a

If you think this is about 'teaching a few Greeks a lesson', then you really don't understand the severity and complexity of the current situation. The Greeks are a symptom that can't be dealt with by being nice to them, because then they won't change a damned thing. Why would they, if the others want to keep them in the Euro so much they can get away with anything they want? And worse, by not being severe with them, the other countries will think similarly and cater to their population instead of the population of the Eurozone as a whole. That's just how the incentives are, so they are forced to impose strong counter-incentives.