{"id":135,"date":"2005-03-18T11:49:14","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T16:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/?p=135"},"modified":"2006-01-31T09:10:12","modified_gmt":"2006-01-31T14:10:12","slug":"wolfowitz-guarding-the-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2005\/03\/18\/wolfowitz-guarding-the-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfowitz guarding the sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/national\/nationalpost\/news\/issuesideas\/story.html?id=e88f0207-6f8d-4e12-9b7a-1c3cc90ef937\">The National Post has an article about why Paul Wolfowitz is such a poor choice for head of the World Bank<\/a>.  Off hand I can&#8217;t tell if it&#8217;s being passed off as an op\/ed article, or if it&#8217;s categorized as general news &#8212; but does it matter with the National Post?  I&#8217;m glad to read that the paper that wanted to see Canada in Iraq is questioning the the invasions&#8217; chief architect&#8217;s analytical abilities, though the article is attributed to Fred Kaplan, of the former M$ property, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\">www.slate.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The rational reasons why Paul Wolfowitz judgment cannot be trusted on anything:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He claimed:  &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and secure the surrender of Saddam&#8217;s security forces and his army.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>He also thought a post-war Iraq could fund it&#8217;s own recovery<\/li>\n<li>He claimed that America&#8217;s troops would be welcomed to Iraq with flowers! (my favourite)<\/li>\n<li>Lastly, as a senior member of the Pentagon (under secretary? &#8211; I don&#8217;t know the US positions that well)  Where&#8217;s Osama?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The irrational reasons why Paul Wolfowitz should be head of the World Bank:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He talked to Bono twice yesterday.  Twice! (He called him and Bono refuses to comment on it)<\/li>\n<li>George Bush said that Wolfowitz qualifications are he&#8217;s a senior member of the Pentagon and the World Bank is an organization of a similar size<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not only is that like saying you should hire a lawyer as a surgeon because they&#8217;re both professionals with a lot of training, but it&#8217;s like saying you should hire a personnel injury lawyer as a surgeon.  It&#8217;s the marriage of an irrational thought with an bad choice.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always said that I have trouble understanding the decisions George Bush makes, but perhaps it was better when he didn&#8217;t give his reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Post has an article about why Paul Wolfowitz is such a poor choice for head of the World Bank. Off hand I can&#8217;t tell if it&#8217;s being passed off as an op\/ed article, or if it&#8217;s categorized as general news &#8212; but does it matter with the National Post? I&#8217;m glad to read&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2005\/03\/18\/wolfowitz-guarding-the-sheep\/\">Continue Reading<span> Wolfowitz guarding the sheep<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,7,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}