Paul Wolfowitz was the intellectual star of the neo-conservative crew that drove the country to war with Iraq. Today, he's the World Bank president who used his position to land his girlfriend a sweetheart job and cast a global pall over his own anti-corruption drive at the bank.
Yesterday, Paul Wolfowitz, still struggling to keep his job, went before the Executive Directors of the World Bank and said: “If you want to have a discussion about my leadership, my management style and the policies I support, let’s do it. That’s fair. That’s legitimate.”
Today is judgment day, with long knives out for his scalp. The White House stood by him until it didn't -- saying for the first time Tuesday that "all options" were on the table.
Paul Wolfowitz stands for much of what America's face to the world has been in this young century. And today, that face is in deep trouble.
Listen to a conversation on On Point about Wolfowitz facing the end of the line.
Should he stay or should he go? Is this really about Wolfowitzian nepotism? Or one more chicken coming home to roost for the Bush team and their world view?
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For the most part, it's a bunch of corrupt, insulated bureaucrats at the World Bank protecting their turf. And their affluent lifestyles.
If you're happy seeing millions of dollars funneled into the hands of thugs & thieves
instead of funding programs that might ACTUALLY fight oppressive poverty & lawlessness, you'll be glad to see this man go.
If you think the World Bank should be used as a hatchet to "get even" with Bush & settle political scores instead of working on debt forgiveness to African nations,
you'll be happy to see him go.
If you think that perpetuating the notion the the World Bank MUST be allowed to continue its secretive operations & decision making processes in order to assist
impoverished nations, you can celebrate his departure.
And if you think that corruption is better than keeping promises, and that the poor should continue to struggle so the influential can continue to run their lives, you'll be glad he's gone.