之前范克廉寫了一篇混世魔王的文章談美國於國際政治的角色, 裡面提到布殊提名鷹派副國務卿Paul Wolfowitz做世銀主席, 歐洲的一個非政府組織TNI, 的評價與范兄不約而同, 舉出了十個Wolfowitz當世銀主席的理由:
- He would follow in the great tradition of World Bank president Robert McNamara, who also helped kill tens of thousands of people in a poor country most Americans couldn't find on a map before getting the job.
- It helps to be a good liar when you run an institution with employees who earn over $100,000 a year to pretend to help billions of people who live on less than $1 a day.
- With all his experience helping U.S. companies grab Iraq 抯 oil profits, he's got just the right experience for doling out lucrative World Bank contracts to U.S. businesses.
- After predecessor James Wolfensohn blew millions of dollars on "consultations" with citizen groups to give the appearance of openness, Wolfowitz's tough-guy style is just what抯 needed to rid the World Bank of those irritating activists.
- Unlike former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, another one of the four leading candidates, at least Wolfowitz hasn't failed at running a Fortune 500 company.
- Unlike the Treasury Department抯 John Taylor, another leading candidate, at least Wolfowitz doesn't want to get rid of the institution he would head.
- While earning a University of Chicago Ph.D. , he was exposed to the tenets of market fundamentalism that have reigned at the World Bank for decades.
- He has experience in constructing echo chambers where only the advice he wants to hear is spoken.
- He knows some efficient private contractors who build echo chambers for only a few hundred billion dollars (cost plus, of course).
- He can develop a pre-emptive poverty doctrine where the World Bank could invade countries that fail to make themselves safe for U.S. business, modeled on the U.S. pre-emptive war doctrine he helped craft.