A Good Poke in the Eye Makes Angry Neighbors

Mixing metaphors is about the only way to talk about the Bush administration's scrambled thinking.

First Bolton is assigned to the United Nations--the Archie Bunker of international diplomacy; now Wolfowitz to the World Bank--a guy who was wrong about EVERYTHING in Iraq and with no credentials for the job.

The Financial Times is reporting the the Europeans are unhappy with W2, but they don't have much of a choice but to go along; the World Bank is our show.