In downgrading the sovereign debt rating of nine eurozone countries - France, Austria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Malta, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Cyprus - are analysts at rating agency Standard & Poor's guilty of a contempt for Europe akin to that shown by American soldiers when urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban?
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