Wolfie in hot waterRupert Cornwell
of the Independent revels in some lovely ironies revealed by the
behaviour of von Wolfowitz at the Weltbank:
"In contemplating the near-certain
downfall of Paul Wolfowitz, it's hard to know whether to laugh or cry. Does one
weep at the outrageous hypocrisy of it all: the president of the World Bank,
self-appointed apostle of "good governance" and scourge of corruption, caught in
a blatant act of nepotism and cronyism - exactly the vices he wants to stamp out
in the Third World countries his organisation lends money to?
Or does one roar with laughter at the
incongruity of it all: sex at the World Bank, as Wolfowitz the cerebral ideas
man (even if his ideas about Iraq were as misbegotten as they get) is brought
down by matters of the flesh, as he arranged promotions and lavish pay rises for
his girlfriend Shaha Riza?"
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Posted: Wed - April 18, 2007 at 04:52 PM |
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I was born and raised in Sydney, Australia and now work for a non-profit educational foundation in the US. Before moving to the US with my family I taught modern European history at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. I have studied at universities in Australia, Germany, the US, and Britain and consider myself a citizen of the world and a supporter of no particular nation state. [More]
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