Powell Sells Out
You could believe that Colin Powell has come around to the Administration’s way of thinking, and now sees the sense in Donald Rumsveld’s mindless aggression. Or you could believe his arm is so twisted behind this back that he can pick his nose without bending an elbow. I think both are true to a certain extent. It is to Bush’s credit– a credit to his shrewdness– that Powell hasn’t been driven out of this administration. But a day may come when Powell looks back at a rather dubious episode in his career and wonders where he lost his soundness of mind, his prudence, and his wisdom.
Ironically, I used to have more of a problem with the other side of Powell. During the Serbian crisis, Powell insisted he could not send U.S. troops into a region solely for the purpose of keeping the peace, without vital U.S. interests at stake.
I still have a problem with that, and obviously, Iraq is not Serbia.