He was a fugitive, for crying out loud. So the fact that Rich left the country because he didn t want to go to prison for refusing to subject himself to involuntary servitude to the federal government is the worst of Rich s crimes in Cohen s book.
Liberals hate it when people vote with their feet.
That s why people who tried to flee East Germany and other communist regimes were shot. Marc Rich bought a pardon with the money he made betraying America. Dowd makes it sound as if he had promoted penny stocks or something like that. People have a financial incentive not to go to war with their trading partners or countries that produce goods that they buy. Edmund Contoski brilliantly divided people into makers and takers , but it occurred to me that people can also be divided into traders and bombers.