Dispatch From the No-Shame Department
Paul Wolfowitz has screwed up virtually everything he has done in association with the Bush administration and America is the worse for it.
The smarmy neocon was a key architect of the Iraq war and as Donald Rumsfeld’s deputy secretary of defense proved to be adroit at assigning blame to practically everyone except himself as the war came a cropper.
Wolfowitz then went on to become president of the World Bank, which had been widely criticized by the White House for corruption and cronyism. He promptly installed his girlfriend in a key position with a hefty compensation package and resigned only after a bitter and protracted showndown with the bank’s board.
Now Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who knows a thing or three about screwing up, will name Wolfowitz to head a high-level advisory panel on arms control and disarmament.
It so happens that Wolfowitz has substantial experience in arms-control matters, but that’s not the point. The reality that the Bush administration repeatedly and shamelessly rewards bad behavior is.
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2 Responses to “Dispatch From the No-Shame Department”
But he posesses the key requirement for a high-level position within the Bush administration. He's loyal. Bush doesn't care about the rest.
Seriously, how bad to you have to screw up to be labeled as unqualified by the president? How do you trust an executive whose yardstick doesn't have a measurement for competence on it, only loyalty?