What is Paul Wolfowitz up to in Chad?
Have you been wondering what Paul Wolfowitz might be up to in his new position as head of the World Bank? Wolfowitz was nominated last year by George W. Bush to head the powerful financial institution, which lends billions of dollars to countries around the world. The European imperialists went along with the nomination. They get to pick the head of the equally powerful International Monetary Fund. The rest of the world has no say in either matter. Wolfowitz’s nomination was seen by a number of commentators as similar to when Robert McNamara, President Lyn don Johnson’s secretary of defense and a leading architect of the Vietnam War, was moved over to the same position in 1968. Like Wolfowitz, McNamara was too close ly associated with a costly and failing U.S. military adventure. So he was kicked up stairs to become president of the World Bank. Before this job, Wolfowitz was not only deputy secretary of defense for four years under Donald Rumsfeld; he also was the leading ideologue of
