Strauss-Kahn set up by vengeful Americans?

The French are for the millionaire. The Americans are for the maid. Among the French, three out of five think the IMF's former managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been framed. (Strauss-Kahn tendered his resignation as head of the IMF yesterday.)

Here in the USA there's not been a reliable poll, but public sentiment is clearly overwhelmingly against Strauss-Kahn, amplified by self-congratulation that America is a nation of laws, a maid's word as potent as a millionaire's, in contrast to the moral decay prevalent in France.

 The French, for their part, stigmatise America as a puritanical, omnipotent imperial police state, capable of any infamy. But even as they charge that Strauss-Kahn was set up, the French press is rather weak on identifying or even suggesting the precise mastermind or group working to destroy a man who might have been the French Socialist Party's triumphant candidate, evicting Sarkozy from the Elysee Palace. More...

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