Þessi grein birtist á hinum víðlesna vef Huffington Post og er skrifuð af Írisi Erlingsdóttur. Fyrirsögnin er Zimbawe norðursins. Upphafið er svona:

„The catastrophic economic collapse of Iceland has in international news stories been described as simply another, inevitable casualty of the credit crunch. A Wall Street Journal story last week noted that Iceland was one of the international financial bubble’s most enthusiastic players,“ but failed to mention how Iceland’s largely homemade crisis was created by a small group of powerful political and financial figures who literally have looted the nation’s treasury.

According to the Fund for Peace, a state that is failing has several characteristics, such as group-based inequality, brain drain, sharp economic decline, corruption and criminal behavior, to name a few attributes. The magnitude of corruption and wrongdoings at the highest levels of Icelandic political and financial system that have come to light following the country’s economic collapse begs this question: Is Iceland a failing state?“