Citizens are real victims of Greek crisis

That Greece has been undergoing a slow-motion tragedy, now accelerating, is undoubted by (almost) all commentators. 

A modern, developed, European democratic country is devolving before our eyes into one where malaria and tuberculosis are making an unwelcome return, a laboratory for failed economic experimentation in which the hapless citizens are the denizens of the monetary petri-dish.

It’s hard to know exactly what is going on, and one cannot escape the conclusion that nobody really knows. Having got in an unexpectedly overwhelming result in support of its position, the Greek government then squandered that support by not turning up to meetings with the creditors armed with a coherent, mandated, economic policy.