But the World Bank is not the Justice Department, or the Defense Department, or any of the other branches of government where the administration could employ CIA-approved non-torture techniques to get employees to go along with embattled Bush appointees. There’s a new report out to highlight Wolfowitz’s ethical lapses, and it’s turning out to be a lot harder to lean on the World Bank’s international crew than it was on Rumsfeld’s military. The Bush administration can tell the World Bank employees to sit down and shut up, but those employees — and the governments who sent them — don’t have to listen. However, they are prepared to be generous.
How delightful! The World Bank is offering the U.S. a deal. Take Wolfowitz back and give us somebody else we’ll like better.
I’ve got a better idea. Let them keep Wolfowitz and do whatever they want with him and when they’re done we’ll pull out of the World Bank and every other international organization and let them choose their own crooked leaders. Then we’ll pull our troops stationed overseas back home, line them up on our borders with orders to shoot anybody who attempts to enter illegally. We’ll vow never to interfere in any other nation’s affairs again and warn them not to interfere in ours. If any nation is stupid enough to attack us or wants to take us on then all bets are off. We’ll just lock and load and ransack every town, village, or city in their nation until the whole damn country is levelled flat and sell what’s left to the neighboring countries, using the proceeds to beef up our military strength. Any foreign leader who can’t live with that solution will go on our shit list and the only way off of that list is to solve their own problems without our assistance (yes, this includes Israel).
If they want our help in establishing a free market economy then we’ll send our best businessmen to help them do that (without the military escort). Any U.S. businessman without the balls to make the trip will just have to settle for doing business within U.S. borders. These efforts can be lead by the Vice President of the U.S., who will be the first U.S. representative on foreign soil when we offer such free enterprise assistance. If a sitting Veep has a problem with that job then he should resign and any Veep who refuses to go will be immediately removed from office and replaced. It’s time to cut the bullshit and act like we really believe in the values that say we believe in.
