DEATH OF DEMOCRACY

Europe cool, aid groups dismayed over World Bank role for Wolfowitz

Britain's former international development secretary Clare Short denounced the nomination of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz to be the next head of the World Bank.
US President George W. Bush's choice to name Wolfowitz was akin to showing "two fingers to the world", she said, referring to a vulgar gesture.
"This is really shocking. It's as though they (the Americans) are trying to wreck our international systems," she told Channel 4 news.
Ms Short referred to Wolfowitz as an arch-conservative seen as a key architect of the US-led war on Iraq. Aid groups voiced dismay and some puzzlement.

Supporting Ms Short's belief is President Bush's recent appointment of Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton as the next US ambassador to the United Nations, a surprise choice that would send an outspoken critic of the world body's effectiveness to its inner councils.

In January 2003 The UK's Observer reported: The number three at the State Department, John Bolton, even said: 'There is no such thing as the United Nations. There is only the international community, which can only be led by the only remaining superpower, which is the United States.'