Wolfowitz's Possible Successors?

Milton Drysdale:

Pros: Extensive experience providing banking services for gun wielding semi-literates.

Cons: Miss Jane Hathaway, real brains behind Drysdale's success, fled to undisclosed location in 1967 with accomplice Jethro Bodine after bank examiner discovered fifty million dollars missing from Bank of Beverly Hills vault.


Rich Uncle Pennybags (a.k.a. Monopoly Man):

Pros: Holds two Get Out of Jail Free cards. Once won second prize in a beauty contest. Snappy dresser.

Cons: Tendency to tear down residential housing to build luxury hotels.


Gordon Gekko:

Pros: "Greed is good" motto reduces Invisible Hand and rational self-interest theories to terms underdeveloped nation populations can understand.

Cons: Sharp dealing reputation inconsistent with high moral standards insisted upon by World Bank for all non-Third-World personnel. Hideous taste in neckties.


Scrooge McDuck:

Pros: Favors fiscal and monetary policies designed to discourage runaway inflation.

Cons: Insistence on gold backed currency and tight credit limits money supply growth in pace with expanding economy.


C. Montgomery Burns:

Pros: Gay friendly employer. Understands importance of safe, clean, reliable source of energy. Comfortable with monopoly ownership typical of kleptocracies.

Cons: Victorian attitudes may prove offensive to post-Colonial regimes. Preference for nuclear power poses weaponization risks.