Many Argentines believe that the IMF, having been criticised for backing the fixed exchange rate long past its usefullife, was slower and sterner with Mr Duhalde than with his predecessors.
In practice, however, it is a formula for condemning America's armed forces to operating obsolete equipment long after its useful service life is ended -- and inviting others to perceive and perhaps to act upon exploitable weaknesses on the part of the United States.