I suspect that you are right!
However, whatever the political reasons for keeping them in, if they are not pushed out of the Eurozone they will, always, be a milestone around our necks, especially as they will set a precedent for other members to default.
I wanted the UK to be a member of the Eurozone, How wrong I was!
Tsipras came to power with a mandate to end the austerity imposed by Greece’s creditors while keeping the country in the euro.(Bloomberg)
Mr Tsipras wants to walk to the summit of Everest, yet he does not want, or intends to do any climbing, Angela please do something about it, why not flatten the mountain for him, he got a strong democratic mandate, got it by meddling with the truth and logic, and he is not a magician.
It is very possible that by his crazy manipulations he will achieve neither.
An honourable thing for him and his cronies would be to resign, or at least ask additional question in the coming referendum if the Greek people still continue to trust his administration to guide them in this difficult situation. A negative score on that issue might provide him with a strong, democratic and politically correct mandate to resign.
Of course that is too much to expect from these politically corrupt bunch, plainly caught up with their empty promises devoid of any rationality. They firstly outmanoeuvred the Greek people by lying to them, got elected on that lie (nothing new), then tried to outmanoeuvre Europe, and its many creditors, running again with a begging cup around the world crying all the time about their strong democratic mandate and making some stupid mistakes that confirmed them to be nothing more than clowns, though elected ones, (not appointed ones like the Brussels lot). Now again they are asking Greek people to have a referendum on this failed promises, while still holding to power deceitfully gained.
This is bad for the Greeks, for the EU and for the rest of the world. It points out to the way how politics should never be done and how easy it comes for the mess to continue with nobody taking any responsibility as to what went wrong in the past, still continues at present and a very careless view of finding the realistic solution for the future.
Interestingly, Brussels with all their pomp, ceremonies and ridiculously expensive set of socialists cronies have very little to say on this subject, pointing to the fact that such appointed (not elected) cohort has even less reason to exist than the crooked and deceitfully elected pseudo government in Athens.
If anyone has too much cash and do not know what to do with it, please transfer it to Athens, they know what to to with it.
Waste it on wishful thinking, while the rest of us are watching riveted to the seats in the world's theatre of drama, on this occasion provided by Greeks. What the next act will be, who is playing, would they get any Oscars, and may be an occasional Nobel Prize.
Well if Obama got it why should Tsipras miss on that? But that is another subject.