Due to jargon deficiencies (mine, of course) I have not been following
these threads very well, but there's enough to jog a memory.
Back in the Sixties, when questions and answers were simple,
I met a Dutch businessman somewhere in the Balkans.
Apropos of something, he suddenly intimated that the Indonesians
had exchanged their colonial masters for others infinitely more rapacious,
that this was now a common realization, and that there existed circles
bent on inviting the Dutch back.
Since I knew that all rats have teeth and fleas, I was disposed to see
this allegation as a national conceit and nothing more. Today, viewed
from the belly of an insatiable beast, I'd give any odds on it.
valis
