Lecturing Germany on its own history is just about the most useless contribution to this debate possible. Germany and everyone else who foolishly loaned Greece

Lecturing Germany on its own history is just about the most useless contribution to this debate possible. Germany and everyone else who foolishly loaned Greece money in 2010--and before--wants to get paid. There is nothing wrong with that. Dredging up the irrelevant past? Not so much. Or: if I owe someone money, it doesn't matter if they are a nice person or not. I still owe them money, and must suffer the legal consequences if I fail to pay. This is what the rule of law is all about. It protects everyone, even people who are not nice. Even people who are hyopcrites. Even people who are Germans. This moralization is childish. By all means dismiss the German government's moralization as silly and irrelevant. But don't engage in far more silly and far less relevant moral hectoring of your own.