Paul J. Adam wrote:

In message , Keith Willshaw
writes

The so called Paris club (I kid you not) of western debtors
are insisting that Iraq pay up. So while the US aand Britain are
spending lives and billions of dollars stabilising Iraq and rebuilding
that nation the Paris club are lecturing piously from the sidelines while
trying their dammdest to collect their pound of flesh and insisting
they get a share of the reconstruction contracts.


Conversely, what incentive do they now have to forgive those debts?

Is that the way it works?

Let's put it another way. What makes them think they'll collect
*anything* if they aren't a little flexible on this issue?


SMH