Africa/Global: Wolfowitz Pick for World Bank

If sending arch-unilateralist John Bolton to the United Nations sent a message of contempt for multilateralism, what does U.S. President George W. Bush mean by sending that ardent advocate of ”hard power”, Paul Wolfowitz, to the planet's single biggest purveyor of ”soft power”, the World Bank? Bush's confirmation at a press conference Wednesday that he had chosen the deputy defence secretary, best known for being the administration's earliest and most outspoken advocate of war with Iraq, caused general consternation among both the national security elite and Bank-watchers in the development community.