I, too, was excited to see Atwood's name attached to that op-ed! As usual, she is spot-on in her criticisms, in an entirely refreshing way.  Perhaps one reason the media focuses on Wall Street's greedy investment bankers is that to also blame the debtors would end up implicating the biggest debtor of all -- the US government (thanks, China for financing the Iraq war)!

It's a sticky situation, but I have faith in both economic and social reconstruction.