Tuesday, May 15, 2007
The Big Bad Wolf
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/18/washington/18worldbank.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087%0A&em&en=58dc4851740d3497&ex=1179720000
And this one:
http://www.ifaonline.co.uk/public/showPage.html?page=447003
"Sounding more like a cast member of the Sopranos than an international leader, in testimony by one key witness Mr Wolfowitz declares: "If they fuck with me or Shaha, I have enough on them to fuck them too." "
So Wolfowitz, after investigations showed that he had been bias and essentially corrupt, refuses to admit it and resign.
It's funny how people can weight honesty on different scales. What's worse, is that the White House is still professing its support of Wolfowitz, praising him for having done a good job so far. And yet they pound on governments they view as corrupt and denounce them. But wasn't what Wolfowitz did also corrupt?
And then we wonder why Iraq is in such a sad state... why the 'war on terror' seems to have hit a brick wall. Instead of getting rid of terror, all the Bush administration seems to have done is to cultivate it!
The thing is this... if you want someone to behave in a certain way, you've got to lead by example. That's such a basic principal that everybody knows. Parents for example, cannot tell their kids not to take drugs while they snort some coke up their noses.
If the World Bank wants to really be effective, they cannot have any scandals, anything that calls their integrity into question. When the president of the World Bank is corrupt, you lose the authority to tell other countries, "shape up, or there'll be no loans for you!"
Wolfowtiz cannot keep denying any wrongdoing, or shift the blame to others. He needs to face up to the music. The whole incident just simply discredits the World Bank, and the Bush administration.
Now I'm just wondering how long it'll take before they kick him out. And if they get him to resign, I hope it's not by negotiating some deal. That guy did wrong, he should be punished, and that's that. They shouldn't even offer any compensation.
We'll see...
And this one:
http://www.ifaonline.co.uk/public/showPage.html?page=447003
"Sounding more like a cast member of the Sopranos than an international leader, in testimony by one key witness Mr Wolfowitz declares: "If they fuck with me or Shaha, I have enough on them to fuck them too." "
So Wolfowitz, after investigations showed that he had been bias and essentially corrupt, refuses to admit it and resign.
It's funny how people can weight honesty on different scales. What's worse, is that the White House is still professing its support of Wolfowitz, praising him for having done a good job so far. And yet they pound on governments they view as corrupt and denounce them. But wasn't what Wolfowitz did also corrupt?
And then we wonder why Iraq is in such a sad state... why the 'war on terror' seems to have hit a brick wall. Instead of getting rid of terror, all the Bush administration seems to have done is to cultivate it!
The thing is this... if you want someone to behave in a certain way, you've got to lead by example. That's such a basic principal that everybody knows. Parents for example, cannot tell their kids not to take drugs while they snort some coke up their noses.
If the World Bank wants to really be effective, they cannot have any scandals, anything that calls their integrity into question. When the president of the World Bank is corrupt, you lose the authority to tell other countries, "shape up, or there'll be no loans for you!"
Wolfowtiz cannot keep denying any wrongdoing, or shift the blame to others. He needs to face up to the music. The whole incident just simply discredits the World Bank, and the Bush administration.
Now I'm just wondering how long it'll take before they kick him out. And if they get him to resign, I hope it's not by negotiating some deal. That guy did wrong, he should be punished, and that's that. They shouldn't even offer any compensation.
We'll see...
