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Mr. Malloch Brown warned on Monday that, if Mr. Wolfowitz stayed as president, European countries might withhold funding from the next financing round for the bank's International Development Association. We hope he's right, though we know few European finance ministers who aren't eager to throw good money after bad. Still, it's a remarkable bit of chutzpah for the man who downplayed corruption at the U.N. to seek the ouster of the man who has fought to reduce corruption at the World Bank.

Oh boy, I really hope they do - then we can do the same (withhold funding from the next financing round) and bring corruption in World bank a little bit down to size, one round at a time. Few more of these "threats" and WB will cease to exist, and then we can try the same with IMF and selective agencies of UN. Finally, we could thank the Europeans for showing us the way to a slightly better, less corrupt world. Then we'll see if people like Soros would like to spend their own money the way they liked WB or IMF or UN money being spent.

Let's take them up on all their "threat" bluffs! It's about time to see how good they are at this kind of poker - no matter what they do then, they lose!