A Brilliant Paragraph from Hitchens

Christopher Hitchen's latest article is on Paul Wolfowitz and his suitability to be Head of the World Bank. Hitchens thinks it is a good appointment, and so do I. But his last paragraph is just amazing. I wish I could write like that!

Now even the supreme and magnificent United States is hostage to debts held by others, while poor countries are mired in an even worse debt trap and the U.N.bureaucracy is a sweltering, corrupt banana republic in its own right. Who can guess the way out of these dilemmas? But with the Wolfowitz and even the John Bolton nomination to the United Nations, the Bush administration retains its capacity to startle, mainly because it has redefined the lazy term "conservative" to mean someone who is impatient with the status quo.