Powell's Intrusion

Washington Post ^ | 11/25/01 | George F. Will

[veronica]

When Colin Powell retired as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1993, he quoted Thucydides: "Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most." It might have been an impressive example of restraint if the United States had husbanded its power and continued to refrain from intruding itself, with special emissaries and multiplying plans, into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

However, Secretary of State Powell's Louisville speech about that conflict was useful because it demonstrated that there really is nothing much to be usefully said on the subject at the moment.

[veronica]

Try a Conservative writer for a change, anti-Israel types.

[veronica]

And no, he's not a 'neocon' either.

[aposiopetic]

The next time Powell meets with the world's senior terrorist, he should ask Arafat: Do you deny, in spite of abundant historical and archeological evidence, that the Temple Mount is the location of the Second Temple, destroyed in 70 A.D.?

. . . [silence] . . .

Is that your final answer?

[vrwc54]

George Will bump

[Patria One]

Sharon and Arafat still have to deal with General Anthony Zinni.

[malarski]

George F. Will is neither a conservative nor a neocon columnist. He is a waterboy for the special interest groups and will argue with all kinds of convoluted reasoning just to prove his point. Powell's Intrusion article is a good example of George's convoluted reasoning, with facts and self-righteous opinions, intermingled in a free style mixture.