WOLFOWITZ GOING... GONE!

The president of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, is to resign the post by the end of June, it just emerged, over the scandal surrounding a pay rise and promotion of Shaha Riza, an officer of the Bank who happens to be also his girlfriend.

I just think that this is a fair outcome for an issue that invokes all over the command: "practice what you preach"! There are, however, other views according to which this was a manufactured event, specially on the part of Europeans opposed to the war in Iraq, of which he was one of the main architects, meant to tarnish the White House, where Wolfowitz counted until now with the stern support of George Bush.

Some of the same views argue that the same treatment should have been dispensed to Kofi Anan over his son's involvement in the "Oil for Food" scandal... Yet other commentators utter that it's unjust that the image of Riza is being drawn through the mud like this, when she is "a very honest woman who campaigns for women's rights in North Africa and the Middle East and a substantial professional" who was working in the World Bank long before Wolfowitz assumed the post.

What do you think?

(Read more about this issue here - in Portuguese)

The president of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, is to resign the post by the end of June, it just emerged, over the scandal surrounding a pay rise and promotion of Shaha Riza, an officer of the Bank who happens to be also his girlfriend.

I just think that this is a fair outcome for an issue that invokes all over the command: "practice what you preach"! There are, however, other views according to which this was a manufactured event, specially on the part of Europeans opposed to the war in Iraq, of which he was one of the main architects, meant to tarnish the White House, where Wolfowitz counted until now with the stern support of George Bush.

Some of the same views argue that the same treatment should have been dispensed to Kofi Anan over his son's involvement in the "Oil for Food" scandal... Yet other commentators utter that it's unjust that the image of Riza is being drawn through the mud like this, when she is "a very honest woman who campaigns for women's rights in North Africa and the Middle East and a substantial professional" who was working in the World Bank long before Wolfowitz assumed the post.

What do you think?

(Read more about this issue here - in Portuguese)