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14-04-2007, 01:33 AM
A Rude Awakening for Wolfowitz
By MICHAEL DUFFY/WASHINGTON
Paul Wolfowitz has always been something of a dreamer.
The intellectual architect of the Iraq war, Wolfowitz more than anyone else gets the credit — and the blame — for the idea that the U.S. could in short order create a working democracy from a nation long stapled together by force and fear. That optimistic notion hasn't worked out so well.
Two years ago, when he fled the Pentagon and took over the World Bank, hoping in part to salvage his reputation, the onetime ambassador to Indonesia announced that the number one threat to democracy and development around the world was corruption. Maybe so, but making corruption the World Bank's public enemy number one left longtime bank veterans rolling their eyes at Wolfowitz's naivete.
Still, it was surprising when Wolfowitz admitted this week that he had engaged in a little favoritism of his own, acknowledging that he was involved in salary negotiations on behalf of a World Bank employee with whom he has long been romantically linked.
More here..... (http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1610292,00.html)
You have to wonder what this is really about. Is this a ploy to get people to accept the World Bank? The people don't like Wolfowitz, and demand someone else. Instead of dismantling the World Bank, they focus on replacing Wolfowitz....indirectly approving of the WB. :confused:
By MICHAEL DUFFY/WASHINGTON
Paul Wolfowitz has always been something of a dreamer.
The intellectual architect of the Iraq war, Wolfowitz more than anyone else gets the credit — and the blame — for the idea that the U.S. could in short order create a working democracy from a nation long stapled together by force and fear. That optimistic notion hasn't worked out so well.
Two years ago, when he fled the Pentagon and took over the World Bank, hoping in part to salvage his reputation, the onetime ambassador to Indonesia announced that the number one threat to democracy and development around the world was corruption. Maybe so, but making corruption the World Bank's public enemy number one left longtime bank veterans rolling their eyes at Wolfowitz's naivete.
Still, it was surprising when Wolfowitz admitted this week that he had engaged in a little favoritism of his own, acknowledging that he was involved in salary negotiations on behalf of a World Bank employee with whom he has long been romantically linked.
More here..... (http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1610292,00.html)
You have to wonder what this is really about. Is this a ploy to get people to accept the World Bank? The people don't like Wolfowitz, and demand someone else. Instead of dismantling the World Bank, they focus on replacing Wolfowitz....indirectly approving of the WB. :confused: