Helping Cheney Think
Helping Cheney Think
Yesterday Vice President Dick Cheney declared, “I can’t think of anybody more qualified than Paul Wolfowitz to run the World Bank.”
The two most important qualities that one must possess to run the World Bank are that (1) s/he must care about the mission of the World Bank, and (2) s/he must have demonstrated superior leadership capabilities.
Working off that assumption, here’s a quick list to help the vice president…
Patty Stonesifer: President of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where she runs its mission to “improve access to advances in global health and learning”; formerly senior vice president at Microsoft; member of U.S. delegation to the U.N. General Assembly Special Session on AIDS.
William Reilly: EPA administrator under Bush 1, and former president of the World Wildlife Fund. Created an innovative plan that enabled several Latin American countries to have some of their debts forgiven if they invested the money internally on environmental reform.
Brian Atwood: First president of the National Democratic Institute; former administrator at the Agency for International Development, where he streamlined the agency to devote more money to services and less to bureaucracy; formerly directed Citizens International and is now dean of the Hubert Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota.
And there are so many others. If we stick to the “Americans only” tradition, two other good candidates would be Carly Fiorina and Jeff Sachs … the list goes on and on …
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Carly? Her record is as spotted as Wolfowitz, going by what happened at Lucent and then HP.
March 23rd, 2005 at 6:38 pmDang, Bono would have been the inspired choice. However, “bush” and “inspired” in the same sentence, finish your own joke.
March 23rd, 2005 at 7:58 pmAnd the article doesn’t even mention Bill Clinton?
March 24th, 2005 at 9:57 amCarly Fiorina? Kind of comes up short on both 1 and 2, n’est-ce pas?
March 24th, 2005 at 9:59 amThis struck me as simply an excellent article. I’m just a little disconcerted by the replies.
To start, I question Bono as serious candidate. Think people should look at what he’s actually accomplished thus far, and his real organizational competencies–not just that he’s shilled for good causes. Some of his coments on debt relief, for example, were simply absurd. I doubt he’d have any serious credibility within the financial world beyond his celebrity appeal.
I also think the Carly F bashing is following more the Salon party line than a serious consideration of her career. But the top three suggestions, again: outstanding. Ad in Jeff S., the expert that Economist.Com seems most fond of, and you’ve got a truly inspired, competent, highly qualified preliminary list: all of whom surpass by far Wolfowitz.
& the beat could go on and on–which is precisely the point.
Bush et al., Cheney’s praise notwithstanding, did NOT even make an effort to find the most qualified person: they’re simply rewarding one of their own and “sending a message.”
When things get too hot for Rumsfeld, he runs off to Iraq and poses with the troops. Not that things have gotten far too hot for Wolfowitz, he’s being ran off to the World Bank to play humanitarian.
Meanwhile, the neo-con agenda rolls on (& on).
Politically, the appointment makes perfect sense–it just doesn’t benefit anyone but the present administration.
My compliments to Brooke for calling our attention to the necessary obvious.
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