From Bank to Tank: Wolfowitz Lands Back at AEI [1]
Submitted by Bob Burton [2] on
One of the architects of the war in Iraq for the Bush Administration and former World Bank [3] President, Paul Wolfowitz [4], has landed a role as a Visiting Scholar at the conservative think tank [5], the American Enterprise Institute [6]. The Washington Post notes "Wolfowitz has a long association with AEI, serving as an adviser before joining the Pentagon in 2001." Wolfowitz was one of the early founders of PNAC, the Project for the New American Century [7], itself closely tied to AEI. In March, the Washington Post revealed [8] that Wolfowitz's partner, Shaha Riza [9], had been promoted in the World Bank before transferring to a public diplomacy role with Karen Hughes [10] at the U.S. State Department [11]. The discovery that Riza had landed a major pay raise as a result of Wolfowitz's intervention fueled protests by World Bank staff and eventually led to Wolfowitz's resignation. The AEI states [12] that Wolfowitz will be working on "entrepreneurship and development issues, Africa, and public-private partnerships."