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Monbiot backs Wolfowitz. Progressive commentator George Monbiot today backs Paul Wolfowitz for the World Bank president job. He gives three reasons. 1) "Wolfowitz's appointment highlights the profoundly unfair and undemocratic nature of decision-making at the bank. His presidency will stand as a constant reminder that this institution, which calls on the nations it bullies to exercise "good governance and democratisation" is run like a medieval monarchy". 2) It also demolishes reformism which ignores the fact that the US can veto any attempt to challenge its veto, keep waving their wands in the expectation that a body designed to project US power can be magically transformed into a body that works for the poor. 3) Best of all is the chance that the neocons might just be stupid enough to use the new wolf to blow the bank down. Neocons want to drag down the old, multilateral order and replace it with a new, US one. Amen to number 1) - exactly the language we have used constantly on this site. As for number 2), George sets up a false dichotomy. It's not a question of being entirely a creature of the US government or entirely multilateral. And on number 3) George's argument - like all "it's getting so much worse so it's going to be better" political positioning - relies on a big if. He writes that the neocons "are seeking to replace a hegemonic system that is enduring and effective with one that is untested and (because other nations must fight it) unstable". But given the cowardly reactions of other governments to the Wolfowitz appointment which nations are likely in fact to fight it? And would a collapse of our flawed multilateral system not just allow more untramelled deployment of US power, not less? Instability to combat inequity might work, but it's a big risk, George. Alex Wilks ~ April 05, 2005
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