In case you’re completely up to date on Wolfowitz’s imminent exit from the World Bank and the new push on the Law of the Sea, some other interesting things worth a read: First, private citizen John Bolton says the U.S. should attack Iran soon.

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz pleaded for a second chance and offered to dump his gaggle of advisers who followed him to the Bank from the Bush administration.

John Ashcroft has been a governor, a minister, a senator, and Attorney General of the United States. His colleagues at his private consulting firm, call him “General” now — as a nickname and honorific.

President Bush has teed it up. All Senator Biden has to do now is swing for the fences. If he does, U.S. ocean policy and foreign policy will be considerably stronger. And a handful of out of touch, ultra-conservative Senators will look much, much weaker.

I just want to acknowledge he is gone. The 2008 political race will be easier for me to stomach without Falwell’s meddling.

Dick Lugar just hit one out of the park on Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The former Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee made a noble effort to get UNCLOS through the Senate three years ago, only to be blocked by Senators Frist and Inhofe.

I’ve met Paul Wolfowitz on many occasions and used to see him quite a lot over at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He has always been cordial to me and to others when I have seen him in public.

Or any of our sons? or daughters? on any side of this incredibly reckless escapade in Iraq? Boston University Professor Andrew J. Bacevich is a brave, thoughtful public intellectual who has tried — in reserved, serious terms — to challenge the legitimacy of the Iraq War.

It looks like George W. Bush is going to finish what his father started. In 1982, negotiations concluded on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS for short). President Reagan instructed the U.S.

This will be the big week in finally sorting out the Paul Wolfowitz mess at the World Bank.