Money talks. Bill makes more money in a half dozen speeches than I make as Secretary of State. That’s why the job at the World Bank looks compelling. With Robert Zoellick out, it’s time to dust off my resume.
The only problem? The World Bank is an old boys club. More specifically, it’s an old war hawks club.
By my count, three of the 11 World Bank presidents have come from the U.S. Department of Defense (Paul Wolfowitz, Robert McNamara, John McCloy).
At a time when the free world absolutely wreaks of debt-laden governments, what better position to be in than the one that wields a big money stick like the World Bank.
As to credentials, I’m not as much of a hawk as Wolfowitz or McNamara, but I’ve got some street cred. There’s the surge in Afghanistan. I was for that after I was against it. There’s the Arab Spring. I was for that.
And there’s Libya, my brainchild revolutionary overthrow of a dictator. The real way to be a hero to the masses is to bomb third world countries into rubble, then loan them money to join the 21st century.
Is this a great country or what?
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