Wednesday, March 16, 2005

 

"The 'wolf' in the henhouse"


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from BBC NEWS | Business | Bush backs US hawk for World Bank (link opens in a new window):
"President George W Bush has nominated US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz as the next head of the World Bank, a key development agency.
Mr Wolfowitz has earned a reputation as a hawk during his time as Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's deputy, and was a strong advocate of the Iraq war.
Mr Wolfowitz said he was looking forward to being part of the Bank's 'noble mission'.
The choice of the hardliner to run the agency is likely to be controversial.
But President Bush described Mr Wolfowitz as a 'compassionate, decent man' committed to global development.

Opposing views

Jeffrey Sachs, a leading development economist, called the nomination 'inappropriate'.
'He is a man without international development experience, without professional qualifications.
'He is not a banker or an economist, not a public health specialist, a water management specialist, an agronomist, a climate change specialist.
'He is a defence specialist and so if this were the World Defence Council it would make sense,' Mr Sachs told journalists in a conference call.
But Allan Meltzer, a long-time critic of the World Bank, praised the nomination.
He pointed to Mr Wolfowitz's posting as US ambassador to Indonesia and experience managing large organisations as qualifications.
'We don't need a development person, there are plenty of people at the bank who do that,' Mr Meltzer told the BBC News website.
'What the Bank needs is focus: how many children are innoculated against measles every year? What have we done to bring water to the villages?
'Those are not development questions, those are administrative questions,' he said."

A BBC Reader's View:
"The 'Wolf' has been shown the path to the henhouse. It's hard to imagine peaceful development under his leadership."
Kelly, Washington, US

What a coincidence that this happens to one of the hawks and the authors of the PNAC after the Iraq war and the efforts to push the new Greater Middle East project. Too many coincidences make me sometimes tend to think... that... mmm.. but...
I am being told...

There is nothing called "conspiracy theory."
There is nothing called "conspiracy theory."
There is nothing called "conspiracy theory."
There is nothing called "conspiracy theory."

Does repeating it make me feel better????????

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Also Read:
- PNAC- from Wikipedia
- Gallery of Necon Artists
- Bush for President 2004: The Project for the New American Century- A vision for American global leadership

Excerpt:

PNAC's vision is detailed in its September 2000 report entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century." Among other suggestions, this report calls for the United States to:

  • Withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, stop the reduction of nuclear missiles, develop new nuclear weapons, and deploy a national missile defense system.
  • Increase defense spending to a minimum 3.8 percent of gross domestic product (up from the 3 percent spent at the time of the report).
  • "Fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars" as a "core mission."
  • Warns that "we cannot allow North Korea, Iran, Iraq or similar states to undermine American leadership," and American military preeminence rests on the ability to "[remove] a dangerous and hostile regime when necessary."
  • Keep all peacekeeping and rebuilding missions within the power of American political leadership rather than that of the United Nations.
  • Use key allies, such as the U.K., as the "most effective and efficient means of exercising American global leadership."
  • Take military control of the Persian Gulf region through the establishment of permanent bases.
  • Take control of cyberspace, otherwise "[America] will find it difficult to exert global political leadership."

Update:
BBC News| Wolfowitz to spread neo-con gospel
"By nominating Paul Wolfowitz to be head of the World Bank, President George Bush appears to be sending a message to the world that he intends to spread into development policy the same neo-conservative philosophy that has led his foreign policy."

Comments:
you are vey right about the wolf, he is ben rewarded by the bankers for the good job in iraq.
But i don like you use the term "theory" with conspiracy, you fall in to the same trap as those who want to discredit te concept and thouths of conspiracy, making it sound like a merely "theory".
I like the moto of our hero Micheal Revero; the real conspiracy is to think there is no conspiracy.
peace on you all truth seekers.
 
Hehe...
well..
"Nothing is more practical than a good theory"

Kurt Lewin.
 
Great to find this space. Keep on Keepin' on!
Power to the peaceful,
Jess
 
haha
it is a long living fact, and no mater how good theories are, they can not vompare to facts
 
haha
it is a long living fact, and no mater how good theories are, they can not vompare to facts
 
haha
it is a long living fact, and no mater how good theories are, they can not compare to facts.
 
haha
it is a long living fact, and no mater how good theories are, they can not compare to facts.
 
haha
it is a long living fact, and no mater how good theories are, they can not compare to facts.
 
haha
it is a long living fact, and no mater how good theories are, they can not compare to facts.
 
haha
it is a long living fact, and no mater how good theories are, they can not vompare to facts
 
Sami/Anonyomous:
Ok.. I got it.
OK.. I got it..
OK.. I got it...
OK.. I got it....
OK.. I got it.....

:)
 
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