Wolfowitz removes the fig leaf

George Monbiot, one of the most insightful writers of the left has argued that the appointment of the neocon hawk Wolfowitz to the head of the World Bank, is, in fact, the best thing to happen for progressive causes. Monbiot argues that the World Bank, has never in its history, promoted human development in the third world.

The World Bank has always been a tool of US economic unilaterism, where the US power of veto makes a gimp out of the World Bank, a fact that is "clevely packaged to grant other nations just enough slack to prevent them from fighting it." This is something that the neocons are too stupid to understand, and thus, by appointing Wolfitz, the neocons are replacing "a hegemonic system that is enduring and effective with one that is untested and (because other nations must fight it) unstable." Great read.