Posted on 04/12/2007 9:44:34 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
The president of the World Bank has one asset: his credibility. The Bank’s capacity to make a difference lies not in its money and ideas but in its ability to be the world’s voice for development. This includes, as Paul Wolfowitz, the current president, has insisted, being the voice for good governance. Recent revelations have, however, demonstrated such serious failures that the Bank’s moral authority is endangered. If the president stays, it risks becoming an object not of respect, but of scorn, and its campaign in favour of good governance not a believable struggle, but blatant hypocrisy.
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I hope not. He is brilliant and decent. This women was at State for a short time and is now off the federal payroll. If we chuck such excellent people at the first failing we will continue to be stuck with dummies.(You do understand the bureaucracy there—corrupt and overpaid—was looking for anything to flay him with.)
Look what Kofi got away with and no one called for his removal. Horse of a different color? I certainly believe so. Anyone with a Bush connection is a target.
It’s hard to believe that Wolfowitz, of all people, didn’t understand that coughing up payola on the Q.T. for one’s girlfriends is what filthy rich cronies are for...
BINGO!
Meanwhile, America's shadow government has invited the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood to speak to CONgre$$.
The minute I see keywords “good governance” and “struggle,” my leftar kicks into gear.
The good works have to flow, so Paul has to go. Thus speak the Fabians.
He’s certainly decent to his Muslim girlfriend. Now the chickens are coming home to roost and I am not surprised it’s come about this way. Unfortunate, but he should have stuck by his principles and not gone seeking the good opinion of leftists. They had the long knives out for him no matter what he did to appease them and the results speak for themselves. He’s a tragic case, in the true sense, his desperate desire for approval of liberals - all his anticorruption rhetoric, all his bowing down to Africa, all his politicking in Mexico against the US border wall playing to the Mexican peanut gallery, all his efforts to snobbishly distance himself from the people who gave him jobs in the White House or who did anything nice for him as rightwingers, have not earned him any goodwill from liberals. Instead, they go after him with a vengeance when all he’s doing is nothing worse than anything Kofi did. Unlike Kofi, he didn’t have the social capital to be shameless. His desire for the good opinion of liberals has been the chink in his own armor that has felled him, a true Greek tragedy. He should have gone after them with baseball bat like Giuliani with no desire for their good opinion as he thwacked them. He also should not have given the Muslim girlfriend all that free money for nothing of value. He was, in a way, too nice to the wrong people. Now it’s a scary maelstorm.
As much as I admire Bush, he too can be accused of pandering to the liberals and playing to the press and the results are near the same — no good will. I may not agree with Giulanni on a number of things but if he is a fighter, all the better for the Republicans. Wolfowitz, a student of Allan Bloom, I believe, knows full well the meaning of tragedy and this seems to be the last act being played out rather than the first... there may have been other indiscretions.
Nothing has got on my goat more in the last couple of weeks than this revalation. Wolfowitz’s cruscade against corruption and nepotism at state level, and tieing international aid to meeting those standards was the most far sighted, brave policy an international institution has tried. I believe that had the World Bank held to that path it may, for once, actually have done good.
However, this behaviour which stinks of corruption/nepotism at the top shatters the credibility of the policy to those who are being preached to. This is a catastrophic error of judgement by Paul. The worst thing he can do now is linger - he needs to go now to get the vultures off him, they need to appoint someone quickly with the same philospohy but the ability to eat their own dog-food.
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Do you really believe that a posting at State isan endorsement? Riza is a globally recognozed uber-liberal feminist.
Could have easily been written by a liberal. Either Conservatives hold their own to higher standards than liberals or just forget about it. Paul has to go - or we might as well nominate Hilary as the GOP too.
The man did not do very well in Iraq. This is strike two. Will he land on his feet within this administration?
You mean like believing all the lie about Foley and Hastert so that you handed Congress to Pelosi and Reid? Brilliant. Just proof of your probity.
the World Bank participates in
Gore’s carbon-offset scam.
I have no sympathy for this crook.
He might be a corrupt crook, but he’s OUR corrupt crook.
LOL! Strike three - they’ll put him in charge of some corporation and we’ll watch him run it into the ground as he buys carbon offsets and pontificates at davos about good corporate governance. Then the third strike will make it all complete!
The latest account I have - will try to find it - says that the Muslim Girlfriend is still on the world bank payroll though it sounds like she’s not working anywhere at all. What a gig, money for nothing and the chick is free. Nice work if you can get it
I kind of pity her, what will become of her, she certainly wasn’t a person of any noticeable merit. She’s going down Lewinsky road. And I hear she’s not even his girlfriend anymore. But she sought an advantage her coworkers didn’t have because of her big boyfriend and frankly, she deserves her troubles.
What I find amusing is that the guy knows the rules...and intentionally went around them. His ethics are lousy. I would hire the guy for my company....but I’d have some dimwit standing there to constantly remind him of his obligation to the company.
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