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...they aren't talking about her stiletto boots. To some, Condi's rise augurs a return to a more pragmatic U.S. diplomacy for an Administration exhausted by war, occupation and ideological infighting. That perception was given a boost last week by Bush's announcement that Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, the chief architect of the war in Iraq, would leave the Pentagon to take over as head of the World Bank--another sign that Rice and her realist deputies have gained the upper hand over their neoconservative rivals at the Defense Department. In policy, too, the Administration has shown...
Finally, Bush pointed out that his explanations should convince international leaders that Wolfowitz is just the man for the job. Has he even looked across the aisle or the pond? Europeans and Democrats alike hate Wolfowitz more than they hate Bush (and that’s saying something). Last time he went to Iraq (a developing country now if there ever was one), there was an assassination attempt. Wolfowitz’s nomination just shows how out of touch Bush is with the rest of the world...
...fair, Wolfowitz is not stupid. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and was dean and professor of international relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. Also, he has dealt with other countries before. As Bush pointed out, “he was Ambassador to Indonesia,” so it’s not like he has never seen a developing country before...
Nevertheless, Wolfowitz is a terrible choice. His expertise is not in development economics and he has shown a general knack for perturbing other countries, a skill that can only hurt the World Bank’s mission. The only thing going for him is that he is a loyal Bush supporter, which, of course, is just the thing we need in an international...
...enough bashing Wolfowitz. If the Bush administration can’t find a better justification for Wolfowitz’s nomination, I’ll give them one: he majored in Math at Cornell and has a graduate degree in political science. Economics is kind of, sort of (not really) but marginally like political science with math, right? With all this to his credit, he’s practically overqualified for the position. Maybe his skills would be better used somewhere else...