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Stern Discipline Will Starve The Beast

March 20, 2005 in Main Page | 2 comments

Joe Conason in “Head Scratcher?” on Salon.com wonders exactly why Bush puts Wolfowitz (”a decent, compassionate man” - methinks he doth protest too much) onto the world stage in such a prominent and powerful position.

Its got exactly zero to do with how ineffectual he has been … you couldn’t buy worse job performance in his career.

There’s only one reason … with respect to what develops in significant parts of the world due to whatever the World Bank enables or not, its President is not unlike a combination of central banker and Supreme Court judge. The position is both structural and tactical … and has over-powerful reach and impact.

The World Bank is the piggy bank for poor countries’ allowances, and it will be Wolfowitz who doles out the kids’ rewards, according to how he thinks they should behave. In an inteconnected interlinked global economy, with the bureaucratic infrastructures for the distribution of money in countries that are now used to “receiving” aid … Wolfowitz is in the perfect place to to be the 00’s re-interpretation of Adolf Eichmann.

God was Bush’s headhunter for the Wolfowitz appointment. *Ordered liberty* is on the march.