Too Bad

Laura Rozen reports that Paul Farmer is out as a candidate to run USAID. That seems unfortunate, especially if it was mostly a problem with the vetting process. There are legitimate questions to be asked about whether Farmer would have made the best agency manager in the world, but there's no question he would have offered a very different model of leadership, and I still think that could have been a good thing for USAID and for the government as a whole.