Wolfowitz Is Back

As many of the Bush era warmongers, Paul Wolfowitz is publicly denouncing Donald Trump. In this Der Spiegel interview he says he "might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though" he has "big reservations about her."

SPIEGEL: Mr. Wolfowitz, as deputy secretary of defense under President George W. Bush, you supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Today, many people regard this war as a key factor behind the instability in the Middle East as well as the rise of the Islamic State (IS). Do you feel personally responsible?

  DerSpiegel

You must be joking.

Wolfowitz: No, because Islamic State is mainly a direct result of the failure in Syria.

Sure. It was all Barack Obama's fault. Everything was great until he took over.

But really, could Obama not see this coming when he continued the Bush policies, pretended to end the war in Iraq, and expanded the war to Syria and other countries? If he couldn't, he's not as smart as he'd like us to think.

Wolfowitz: As far as Iraq is concerned, if it had stayed stable the way it was in 2008, IS would not have been able to expand in Iraq the way they did. The mistake was that Barack Obama withdrew the armed forces from Iraq too fast.

Right. Iraq was stable in 2008. George Bush handed Obama a stable Middle East and Obama blew it. Or as Donald Trump recently said, Obama founded ISIS.

Wolfowitz: Peaceful political change has been enormously successful in the past years in Eastern European countries as well as in countries like South Korea, South Africa, Chile and Indonesia.

Jesus Christ. Peaceful political change?!? Paul Wolfowitz is apparently living in an alternate universe. Or perhaps, from an alternate universe.

   

 When are we going to hear from Cheney on his vote for Hillary?

Position Available: President, World Bank

A US-nominated Korean-born president of an Ivy League university, Nigeria's finance minister and a Colombian economist have been confirmed as the three candidates contesting to become the next leader of the World Bank.

US President Barack Obama, whose country traditionally selects the president of the global lender, said on Friday that it was nominating Jim Yong Kim for the role.

  alJazeera

Because the other choices are black and Latino? (A finance minister, or an economist for the World Bank position?  Gasp!)  And if the US “traditionally” selects the president, why does anyone else bother to “contest”? Jim, or Kim, may have been born in Korea, but he's been in the US since he was five years old and is the president of Dartmouth College. He is also big in health organizations, so how that qualifies him for heading up the World Bank, I do not know, but I suppose it's as good a background as Paul Wolfowitz had.

US economist Jeffrey Sachs, who had also been put forward for the job by a group of smaller countries, withdrew and threw his support behind Kim.

He had cast his uphill candidacy as an effort to break Washington's penchant for political appointments.

A Canadian government source said Canada would back Kim and South Korea, his childhood home, also indicated support.

Russia has refrained from publicly backing a non-US candidate and has instead called for a greater role for emerging market countries in other top positions at global financial institutions.

India said it wanted to consult the other so-called BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa - before deciding, and Mexico also said it was keeping an open mind.

The World Bank board of member countries has promised to make a decision by the time of the IMF and World Bank semi-annual meetings on April 21.

What do think? Jim Yong Kim?

Take a look at the list of past presidents.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.