In July 2010, Lagarde, who was France’s finance minister at the time, recognized the damage incurred by those initial delays, “If we had been able to address [Greece’s debt] right from the start, say in February, I think we would have been able to prevent it from snowballing the way that it did.” Even the IMF acknowledged that it had been a mistake not to impose losses on private creditors preemptively; it finally did so only in June 2013, when the damage had already been done.
管理希腊危机的拖延和错误很早就开始了。2010年7月，还在法国财政部长任上的拉加德承认了最初的拖延造成的伤害：“如果我们选择从一开始，比如2月，就正确处置[希腊的债务]，我想我们就能够防止它像现在那样一路越滚越大。”就连IMF也承认，不先发制人地要求私人债权人承担损失是一个错误；2013年，它最终还是这样做了，但此时伤害已经造成。