Wolfie's gone
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Looks like someone's success: Wolfowitz resigns in June.
Apparently everyone gets out of this with a modicum of face saving. I'd bet issues like this will also fade away from public scrutiny again.
The debate over his succession might become interesting....
if you believe the Bank's hoardes of leftwing enemies (opponents is really too weak a word) it is the main instrument of US capitalism to exert its nefarious power.
They must be up to something :-)
But seriously, the Bank is an interesting vector to promote democratic values and it does work to reduce poverty. Poverty itself is a problem, because failed states produce all sorts of undesirables that are going to bite at times.
I think i'ts in the long term Interest of all western nations to have the Bank and to influence its operation.
The hordes of the World Bank's leftwing enemies, I worry about their leftwing friends. Wolfowitz was right in his attempts to reform the institution, but they're not going to let that applecart be overturned.
The leftists who opposed the World Bank and the IMF only oppose it (in terms of their numbers) because they have some dim idea that it has something to do with America. The vast majority of them have no idea how it operates, and the small percentage who do are Communists to begin with.
They won. It's a very sad day for the World Bank.
And as long as I take lots of very expensive and toxic meds I can live for a little longer. Great quality of life.
In other words, HOGWASH. The bank (and the UN) should go away with vengeance. There are either better ways to help the staving, or let them starve. They do no good. It's like Kofi's Corner.
(I don't have those, I'm living for roughly forever)
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Well, I guess the World Bank's ethics committee is going to continue to be comfortable in the back seats of their Maybachs.
I wonder what Jeffrey Sachs thinks? It'd be interesting to know.
I use to hate the term neocon. It's misused and misapplied. But in retrospect, they really did screw a few things up in Iraq. Why in the hell is one of the leading architects of our war in Iraq involved with the World Bank? And how incompetent is this man?
I never liked Wolfowitz if you couldn't tell. He was one of these guys that was trying to pick a fight with Iraq before 9/11 and then - I hate to say it - sort of manipulated the facts to justify his pre-war march against Iraq. I know it sounds liberal - I'm not a troll - but even a broken clock strikes noon every now and then.
There was a handful of overzealous agenda driven idiots in Defense and State misleading Rumsfeld and Bush. Unfortunately, these idiots get to go on and have lucrative careers in places like the World Bank, while Rumsfeld and Bush are left hung out to dry.
He was simply an instigator who knew he'd never pay a consequence for his bad advice.
Wolfie had a long history of autocratic rule and the corruption of power. But then he met his match. The former UN-ers and players in international aid KNOW CORRUPTION.
Wolfowitz was Koffi Annan without Bill Clinton or Hollywood at his feet. Hence, the former criminal (and yes, he was one) gets fired while the latter one goes off to rant against poverty somewhere in the south of France. Such is the modern world.
why the US should put another two cents into this corrupt and ridiculous organization. I hope Wolfe sues the bastards. But he won't.
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CongressCritter™: Never have so few felt like they were owed so much by so many for so little.