Ringer got what I was saying.   For some of the other posters however, it seems I perhaps should have headed my post:   ATTENTION:   SARCASM ALERT.

I confess the post was sarcastic.    I indulged in sarcasm for the first time in my life. But I swear on a stack of Das Kapitals that I will never do it again.


That is, the whole post was sarcastic.    Including:   "Sure is nice to know, though, that the IMF head is blameless in this--after all, he was set up."    Repeat:   that was sarcastic.   And if nothing else, the "Of course."    that followed it should have tipped off the reader.    All readers.   

C'mon, people.