Architect of War
Paul Wolfowitz :
Not welcome in New Africa
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
Alfred Adler
When Wolfowitz's World Bank road show lands in South Africa this week it will not find
crowds of happy natives wearing Nikes and waving American flags at the airport. What it will find is a lot of resentment, complete distrust and justified antagonism towards its policies, its theories and its way of thinking.
Africa knows that it should not be doing business with the World Bank and the IMF.
It knows that none of the African countries which engaged the World Bank over the last
fifty years benefited from the association. There is evidence to the contrary.
Many visionaries in Africa today believe that newer friends in the East offer better options than the unilateral, exploitative and draconian deals which the World Bank imposes. At its best the World Bank is undesirable – at its worst it is outright dangerous. With new boy Wolfowitz at the helm the World Bank has acquired all the attributes of a recurring
Orwellian
nightmare .
The World Bank's new chief arrives on our shores with decades of luggage trailing blood spoor all the way to Bagdhad and beyond - a deluded academic from the lunatic fringe whose fertile imagination and singularly naïve theories were used by the Bush administration to spin the Iraq Oil War to
a largely illiterate American public.
By Adler's definition Paul Wolfowitz is a mass-criminal. He is widely acknowledged as the key figure in the
Bush
Administration's hawk-central which planned the invasion of Iraq and authored the
outrageous intelligence fabrications “proving” that Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) existed in Iraq and posed a direct threat to the security of Europe and America. For this monstrous fabrication alone
he should be held directly responsible for the mass-crimes being perpetrated in Iraq on a daily basis by the invading armies.
But he is not, is he? He is instead traveling around our poverty stricken continent with a carpet bag full of dollars to offer in exchange for whatever little bits of political and economic control he can grab off the lunch table. The kind of bits and pieces that his
oily Washington friends are so keen to weave into another grand scale fabrication; this time aimed at the control of Black Africa's emerging oil and gas
resources.
At the core of this man's brutal inability to reason is his fundamental unshaken belief that international crime (terrorism) is not linked to poverty in any meaningful way. Time and time again he is quoted as saying that “these people (Africans by implication) are poor because they spend their time fighting instead of working. They do not take to crime because they are poor - they are criminals
by choice.”
This point of view alone earns him a special place in history.
We like to think that with responsibility comes accountability. It is somewhat ironical that South Africa is forced to ditch its popular deputy president over an insignificant and much over-rated alleged bribe in the same week that one of the world's most morally corrupt men arrives from the world's most politically corrupt capital to re-sell the very affronts we hold responsible for decades of brutality and corruption in Africa.
Perhaps it is time for Africa to consider a preemptive invasion of the USA to protect itself against
Idiots of Mass Destruction like Paul Wolfowitz. Or perhaps it is just time to play with new friends...
Pedro Buccellato
pmb@cyberlink.co.za
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