FROM LORD RAGLAN TO LORD NELSON:

Wolfowitz to spread neo-con gospel (Paul Reynolds, 3/17/05, BBC News)

By nominating Paul Wolfowitz to be head of the World Bank, President George Bush appears to be sending a message to the world that he intends to spread into development policy the same neo-conservative philosophy that has led his foreign policy.

His role is likely to be one of spreading the word that the ideas that have driven neo-conservatism are just as relevant in the World Bank as in diplomacy
The nomination of Mr Wolfowitz, currently deputy defence secretary, follows hard on the appointment as UN ambassador of another Bush loyalist, John Bolton, who once remarked that "it wouldn't make a bit of difference" if the UN building in New York "lost ten [of 38] storeys".

It is as if Mr Bush is sending his fighting captains into battle as Nelson once did. They know what to do and can be left to get on with it.

Does the British lexicon contain higher praise?

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 17, 2005 1:18 PM