A Downfall's Fallout

摘要

Dominique Strauss-Kahn was buckled up and headed for Berlin on May 15 when he was yanked off an Air France jet on the tarmac, charged with the sexual assault of a hotel maid, and thrown into New York City's Rikers Island prison complex. The act for which he stands accused (and to which his lawyers say he intends to plead not guilty) is despicable. Even if he is exonerated, it's difficult to imagine how the man known as DSK could make a credible return to power. In the calculus of damage, it's not only Strauss-Kahn who will lose. It is Europe.