世銀頭取ウルフォヴィッツの凋落とネオコンの終焉
一応出だしは良かった。世間に知られている自分のイメージに気をつけながらも……何しろ評判の悪いイラク戦争の設計図を引いた張本人の「醜いアメリカ人」そのひとなのだから。
ポール・ウルフォヴィッツは、世界銀行の頭取の座を死守する戦いの真っ最中にあった………
ブッシュ政権１期目には飛ぶ鳥を落とす勢いだった
イラク戦争の発案者ポール・ウルフヴィッツ。
世界銀行頭取に就任後もネオコンの世界制覇の夢を捨てきれず、
部下の愛人女性への特別給与支給と言う、下世話なスキャンダルが命取りとなり、
ついに頭取の椅子を追われる身に。
ブッシュのゲッベルスと言われた「ペンタゴン・陰のオペレーター」の
栄光と凋落を浮き彫りにする、
ニューズウィーク俊英コラムニスト、マイケル・ハーシュの
時宜を得たポール・ウルフォヴィッツ評、後編をどうぞ。
【米国時間2007年5月17日『米流時評』ysbee】
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MAY 17, 2007 ｜ 米 流 時 評 ｜ ブログ雑誌『 楽 園 通 信』デイリー版
Newsweek ｜ MSNBC.com
||| ネオコン世界改造計画の終焉 |||
By マイケル・ハーシュ ｜ Newsweek米国版 2007年5月21日号掲載 ｜ 訳『米流時評』ysbee
One Big Idea at a time
Wolfowitz has always wanted to change the world
By Michael Hirch ｜ NEWSWEEK — May 21, 2007 issue
6. Obsession with One Big Idea
By most accounts, Wolfowitz is a genteel, brilliant figure who as a young idealist fell "in love with political greatness," says a friend from his days in the Ph.D. program at the University of Chicago, Charles Fairbanks. If Wolfowitz has a fatal flaw, it's an obsession with One Big Idea that would set the world right. This made him the intellectual center of the neoconservative movement in Washington.
ネオコンの思想中枢となった世界制覇
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caption7. Wolfowitz's 'save the world' doctrine
But it also, colleagues say, led to a monomania at the Pentagon, where his cause was bringing democracy to the Middle East, and at the World Bank, where it was fighting corruption. "It is always this single-minded agenda with him," says one of Wolfowitz's superiors at the Pentagon during the George H.W. Bush administration, who would speak about his former colleague only anonymously. "Even back then, I can remember [Defense Secretary] Cheney telling him, 'Oh Paul, just shut up,' when he would go off on one of his tears to save the world."
ウルフォヴィッツ流「世界救済の原則」
翻訳中
8. 'Save-the-world bug overcame him'
They're especially fearful of feminists, trade unionists and the like. "The government knows well that if they allow civil-rights activists to have a public gathering, it can easily become a social movement that can soon get out of hand," says Abbas Abdi, who led the storming of the U.S. Embassy in 1979 and now is one of the country's most outspoken reformists. The big fear is a repetition of the people-power uprisings that toppled antidemocratic regimes a few years ago in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Ukraine.人道主義が教条主義を阻止
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9. Bushism alienated him from institution
Wolfowitz also began to make increasingly arbitrary decisions, especially on his anticorruption campaign, cutting off countries opposed to Bush administration policies. Some experts in international development praise what Wolfowitz has tried to do at the Bank — demanding that governments, especially in Africa, reduce corruption as a condition of receiving Bank funds. But rather than moving the whole Bank in that direction — creating a broad-based consensus as a savvy manager might do — Wolfowitz sought to achieve this goal by alienating the very institution he was supposed to be running.
反ブッシュ国家への予算カットで四面楚歌
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10. Self-defeating way of Trotskyist
As he did at the Pentagon, Wolfowitz relied on employees who were ideologically pure political appointees who rejected the regular staff. Wolfowitz has "a Trotskyite mentality," says Sebastian Mallaby, author of "The World's Banker," a 2004 history of the Bank. "You only trust your own particular group of loyalists, and the rest of the world is against you." It's a self-defeating way of thinking, perhaps, if it's the world you're trying to save.
トロツキー主義的自滅のシナリオ
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【米国時間2007年5月17日『米流時評』ysbee訳】
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