[TigerLikesRooster]

This incident is bound to produce highly charged and contentious trial. May top OJ Simpson saga. Ego and pride of French elite are bruised, and they will move heaven and earth to find a hole in the accusation leveled at Strauss-Kahn. Even if the charge itself turns out be unambigously true, the way the whole thing is to be handled would spur angry response. Whether he is guilty or not, it has a potential to strain relationship between two countries. Especially if the French start to convince themselves that he is being railroaded.

In response, French may cry double standard. He is charged and convicted for rape, but there is a certain well-known U.S. politician who successfully dodged the similar charges: Bill Clinton. Whether French used to like him or not is moot. They could use Clinton's case to get back at Americans.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Part of a very complex conspiracy tapestry the Left has been weaving since his perp walk. He was the one “good guy” at the IMF unwilling to subject downtrodden Socialist states to the whims of Big Eeeeeevil Globalist Bankers. So they cooked up a honey-trap and snared him, just like Eliot Spitzer, dontcha know....

[Wuli]

If this scandal was engineered, I would suspect some interested party who wanted to reduce or eliminate the current head of the IMF - and the parties that got him to that position - from influence in picking his successor, and that they wanted his successor to be chosen sooner than would have been the case waiting for the end of his term. As much as non-European capitals have been pushing for a non-European head at the IMF, any culprits may have been from a nation outside Europe. Just conspiracy guessing.