Salon (Michael Lind): "Mr. Magoo goes to the World Bank"

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Salon (Michael Lind): "Mr. Magoo goes to the World Bank"

"The nomination of Paul Wolfowitz to be president of the World Bank, following his commission of a long and costly series of blunders as deputy secretary of defense in George W. Bush's first term, comes as no surprise to those familiar with his career. Wolfowitz is the Mr. Magoo of American foreign policy. Like the myopic cartoon character, Wolfowitz stumbles onward blindly and serenely, leaving wreckage and confusion behind.

"Critics are wrong to portray Wolfowitz as a malevolent genius. In fact, he's friendly, soft-spoken, well meaning and thoughtful. He would be the model of a scholar and a statesman but for one fact: He is completely inept. His three-decade career in U.S. foreign policy can be summed up by the term that President Bush coined to describe the war in Iraq that Wolfowitz promoted and helped to oversee: a "catastrophic success."

"Even the greatest statesman makes some mistakes. But Wolfowitz is perfectly incompetent. He is the Mozart of ineptitude, the Einstein of incapacity. To be sure, he has his virtues, the foremost of which is consistency. He has been consistently wrong about foreign policy for 30 years."
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Thu Mar-17-05 11:00 PM
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1. great great article

I have nominated for greatest. Mr Magoo is about right on.

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Fri Mar-18-05 12:01 AM
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2. I laughed, I cried. Excellent article.

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Fri Mar-18-05 12:41 AM
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3. Hello from Germany,

Many of the people in those countries, who are victims of the Worldbank, rather know the name of the president of the World Bank than the name of their own president.

If this scum really becomes the president of the World Bank, we will see a kind of worldrevolution in the near future or we will experience one of the darkest ages of humanity ever or both.

So many people became aware of the World Bank and the IMF during the last decades and their agenda to produce poverty, destroy import-substituting industries, privatize the last toilet on earth and hijack governments to sell out their economies to global, mostly U.S. and European corporations...

The world will become a slavehouse for 80% of humanity or we will send these bastards where they belong.

Dirk

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