Salon.com: Wolfowitz’s Tomb

وَمَكَرُواْ وَمَكَرَ اللّهُ وَاللّهُ خَيْرُ الْمَاكِرِينَ

Wa makarū wa makara Allāh. Wa Allāhu khayru l-makirīn.

They plotted and planned. And God plotted and planned.
And God is the Best of Planners.

(Qur’ān, Sūrat Āli ‘Imrān, Āyah 54)

Here is an except from an excellent Salon.com article about Paul Wolfowitz’s decline from the architect of “shock and awe” to the his recent forced resignation from the World Bank.

A lead architect of the Iraq war, he believed shock and awe would transform the Middle East. But his policies failed -- along with his tenure at the World Bank.

Paul Wolfowitz’s doctrines are a summa of numerous failed political dogmas of the 20th century. His notion of politics was essentially Bolshevik, but less democratic in practice than Lenin’s. Wolfowitz had no concept of mass politics. Nor did he have an idea of democratic centralism, the core of Leninism, by which the vanguard led the cells of the party. Wolfowitz believed only in the vanguard...

The squalid ending of Wolfowitz’s glittering career, bickering over lies about payments to his girlfriend, submerged his grandiosity. Wheedling with the World Bank board, he appeared as a shadow of his former self, the intellectual field marshal pulverizing the opposition with the artillery of his arguments, reduced to using a Washington lawyer to make fine points.

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