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February 01, 2005
Can Lula da Silva Boost Brazil's Economy?
John over at Inside Europe: Iberian Notes makes interesting observations in a commentary on the National Review's Jay Nordlinger , who "is in Davos for the big hoo-haw wing-ding they're having" and "his take on our man [Luz Ignacio} Lula da Silva, who talks doctrinaire left and occasionally says something profoundly dumb, but has been behaving surprisingly sensibly regarding economic policy." John added:
I've always liked the theory that it took a guy who was seen by the Commies and by the American people as a real hardhead, Nixon, to get us out of Vietnam and open up relations with China. Some softy George McGovern type wouldn't be taken seriously by anyone, just as Jimmy Carter wasn't. Similarly, it took tough old Charles de Gaulle to get France out of Algeria. My guess is that it's going to be tough mean Ariel Sharon who makes the Palestinians an offer they can't refuse."Well," John wrote, "maybe a country like Brazil needs exactly the opposite approach. Lula is seen as a man of the people, and it may take a guy with his humanitarian lefty image to give Brazil's economy the "neoliberal" bitter medicine it needs more of." An interesting thought.
Posted by Munir Umrani at February 1, 2005 04:17 PM
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