[ConservativeDude]

"After a decent interval"

Seems to me Powell has had that already. I think, personally, that he has done a fine job, though he is not as conservative as many of us here....

[Publius]

The key thing Powell did was set up the UN for irrelevence. That in itself was important because it sets the table, a year or two from now, for the US to pull out of the UN and encourage its final collapse.

The question is, did Powell set the UN up deliberately? Or did Bush set up Powell?