Darn, just when I thought I was starting to understand things.

I gather then that Greece has found itself between the rock that is Henry Paulson and his GS and the hard place that is Brussels and its Washington Consensus-lite.  But you're not going so far as to say that Paulson/GS are trying to make Greek lemonade in coordination with the EU, are you?

The march of civilizations is a series of defenses that man has put up against the dread of pure existence.

well, one could say that a few years back, GS provided a valuable service to Greece in helping it massage its deficit figures and qualify for the euro. Today, their role seems more ambiguous, if not downright hostile, but it's hard to know exactly what they are doing.

That said, I don't think Hank Paulson has any involvement with Goldman Sachs today, so that's where you got me confused.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes