Wolfowitz - Jerusalem Post Man of the Year.

few English-speaking readers will have noticed that
Paul Wolfowitz was chosen on Rosh Hashanah (October 1)
by the Jerusalem Post as Man of the (Jewish) Year.

http://www.counterpunch.org/madarasz11082003.html

November 8, 2003

America's Far-Moving Rightwing
The Neocons and the Jerusalem Post
By NORMAN MADARASZ

Prior to the attempt made on Paul Wolfowitz's
life in Baghdad on October 26, the deputy secretary
of defense had already sat far more in the limelight
than any of his predecessors.

>From Vanity Fair to PBS's Charlie Rose,
including a passing reference in Nobel Prize
novelist Saul Bellow's Ravelstein,
Wolfowitz has proved his media savvies.

Yet caught up in Bush's refrains of how the
"world is becoming a safer place", repeated
by America's corporate press elite with THE
contempt akin to a herd's,

few English-speaking readers will have noticed that
Paul Wolfowitz was chosen on Rosh Hashanah (October 1)
by the Jerusalem Post as Man of the (Jewish) Year.

With his associates in the Bush administration and media circle, Wolfowitz
belongs to the 'neoconservative' camp. On the field, he is one of a group of
policy hawks who have undermined internationalist diplomacy to serve the
unilateral ends of the United States through war, covert action and
nationalist/militarist propaganda. The neocons hold the key power positions
in the Bush administration. When they don't, as at the State department,
they call the shots of what goes on from within the operational offices. Few
if any of them have on-the-field military experience. As Rhett Butler would
have said, they are the "stay-at-home speakers filling the ears too full
with fine words of those who have to fight."

The occupation of Iraq is, unfortunately, providing many of them with their
basic military training. The administrator for Iraq, Paul Bremer, may have
emerged from Kissinger's civilian foreign analyst camp; he remains a
neoconservative by proxy. As also does, notwithstanding political
appearances, the candidate for the Democratic Party, retired General Wesley
Clark. In its array of public figures, the neoconservative pedigree proudly
represents America's white heterosexual male elite. Yet their devotion to
belligerence has garnered them the appellation of the War Party. As Bret
Stephens from the Jerusalem Post wrote in celebration of their man of the
year: "On September 15, 2001, at a meeting in Camp David, [it was Wolfowitz
who] advised President George W. Bush to skip Kabul and train American guns
on Baghdad."