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The Uproar Over Wolfowitz

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People are upset about Paul Wolfowitz being head of the World Bank for the wrong reasons--or at least not for the best reason.

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It's curious to me that there's a huge stink about Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank and a clamour for him to resign or otherwise be removed from his office on account of his role showing favoritism towards his girlfriend, who works for the Bank.

Here is a man who was among the principle architects of the war in Iraq, a war of aggression under international law and hence "the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole," as defined at Nuremberg.

Yet it's on account of him getting his girlfriend a promotion or a pay raise (or whatever it was, I really don't care) that people are in a rage.

There's a moral in there someplace.

 

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Wolfie the velociraptor by francine on Sunday, Apr 15, 2007 at 6:49:04 AM