Are the Americans to blame? The idea of manœuvres from the United States being behind the attacks on the euro last week is only partially true. There is some truth in the notion of a plot to undermine the strength and credibility of the European currency to jeopardise the very construction of a compact, economically viable Europe that can throw its political weight around the in the world, but this is not the whole story and it is too easy to blame foreigners for causing our own weaknesses....