Tyrannical on 30 December 2008
Except now the Yen is also rising against the Euro and the GBP too.
The dollar is still weak against the Euro, so MS can afford to price the 360 cheaply in euros.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
