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| 2007 |
This Wall Street Journal report shows what lengths the enemies of Paul Wolfowitz will go to smear him - and show that his current difficutlies are entirely manufactured by his opponents. It's a salutary lesson in the need to know all the facts before jumping on a 'scandal' bandwagon.
(via Daniel Finkelstein)
MessageSpace
No prizes for guessing where that bastion of "anti-Zionism", the FT, stands on this issue.
G'ah - disgusting.
Seems he played the game honourably, and the euro-shits went to town.
I like this bit:
" They especially dislike his anticorruption campaign, as do his opponents in the staff union and such elites of the global poverty industry as Nancy Birdsall of the Center for Global Development."
'Global Poverty Industry' - a beautiful turn of phrase, an indictment of today's victim society.
Ugh.
You watch a cop drama, where the incorruptible hero battles against layer upon layer of vested interests and bribe-takers, and then there's the final showdown, where the malefactors pay the price. In the real world, our hero gets 'downsized' without pension long before he has obtained anything substantive that could expose the EU as a criminal conspiracy of such scope that the Mafia can only marvel at in rapt admiration.