Paul Wolfowitz News

Five years ago this month, Paul Wolfowitz, then the Pentagon's second-ranking official, dropped in on this northern city to take its temperature.

The World Bank bank allegedly believes that biofuels have driven food prices up by 75% but doesn't want to say so for fear of embarrassing President Bush.

Albert Wohlstetter in 1969. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] Albert Wohlstetter, a professor at the University of Chicago, gathers a cadre of fiery young intellectuals around him, many of whom are working and ...

Influential policy analyst Albert Wohlstetter sends two of his young proteges, Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, to work on the staff of Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson , a conservative hawk committed to working ...

Paul Wolfowitz, "who knows a thing or two about overthrowing tyrants", tells Foreign Policy that the secret to ousting Zimbabwe's president is showing his people how much better off they'll be without him.

Paul Wolfowitz argues that the world must show Zimbabweans a brighter future. Foreign Policy: You propose in the Wall Street Journal that some country should offer Robert Mugabe a "safe and comfortable ...

Robert who? The New Republic and Paul Wolfowitz have come up with the same idea.

"Americans are a moral people. They will not sustain a foreign policy rooted in a cold pragmatism that averts its gaze from the tragedy of a little country to maintain cordial relations with its oppressor.

MOSCOW : Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday praised the visiting World Bank director, saying Moscow is pleased with his leadership of the poverty-fighting institution.

Remember when neocon former Defense deputy secretary Paul Wolfowitz famously predicted that Iraq's oil revenue would pay for all the rebuilding of Iraq? The United States still spends more than twice as much on ...

Let me just add one point to Michael Ledeen's excellent post on Condi and Steve Hayes' article on her, which might add something to the other conversations around here as well.

In the latest Nelson Report Rupert Hammond-Chambers of the US-Taiwan business council explains the reasoning behind the choice of Paul Wolfowitz as Chairman of the organization: TAIWAN...reaction, informally, ...

It's truly a day of new beginnings. Later today new President Ma is sworn in and will speak.

Paul Wolfowitz, the former U.S. deputy defense secretary and ex-World Bank president, was named on Monday as new chairman of the board of the U.S.-Taiwan Business Council.

Paul Wolfowitz, a key architect of the Iraq war and ousted head of the World Bank, has been named to head the board of an influential U.S.-Taiwan lobbying group.

“I think I said in my comments quoting Doug's book, no one anticipated this insurgency, a lot of people were slow to recognize it once it started”

Blogroll Archives Wolfowitz Admits Postwar Cluelessness Category: Posted on: May 2, 2008 9:09 AM, by Ed Brayton It's only a few years too late, but Paul Wolfowitz is finally admitting that the administration ... via Dispatches from the Culture Wars

“In his mind, the United States should have armed and trained tens of thousands of Iraqi exiles and put Ahmad Chalabi in charge of an interim government”

Paul Wolfowitz, the Pentagon's No. 2 during and after the invasion of Iraq, now says officials were "clueless" when it came to fighting insurgents. via USA Today

“There's absolutely a connection between a democratic regime and heightened security for the United States”

During the post-9/11 age of neo-phobia, when an irrational fear of anything that might be called "neoconservative" gripped the nation, such critiques passed as intelligently nuanced. via UnionLeader.com

“There were two issues about enough troops”

Paul Wolfowitz , in his first public remarks on the Iraq war in years, said the American government was "pretty much clueless on counterinsurgency" in the first year of the war. via New York Sun

“What was not anticipated by any office as far as I know was the Iraqi regime's ability to conduct a sustained campaign against coalition forces after it was overthrown.”

Wolfowitz: 'The Occupation Of Iraq Ended In June 2004' >> At a Hudson Institute event today, Iraq war architects Paul Wolfowitz and Doug Feith, as well as Dan Senor and Peter Rodman, reconvened to celebrate ... via Think Progress