You seem to place an awful lot of value on the cause of debt being war. The interview gives no indication that Piketty would be unable to grasp the difference o

You seem to place an awful lot of value on the cause of debt being war. The interview gives no indication that Piketty would be unable to grasp the difference of the Greek and post-war German situation. That this "boggles the mind" seems to be a bit disingenuous. Also, the 2008 crisis isn't the direct cause of the crisis in Greece right now. That crisis has been building ever since Greece joined the monetary union in 2002. As Piketty notes: "The Greeks have, without a doubt, made big mistakes. Until 2009, the government in Athens forged its books". Papandreou finally revealed this (indeed, around 2008), and the current Greek crisis and European monetary instability followed suit.