That was the only bit of optimism in the article.
Not as odd as some of the pronouncements of Mr. POwell, such as this one. Would he have supported allowing Nazi supporters to voice their opposition to U.S. policies in WWII? Mr. Powell is clearly the very WORST of Bush's appointments. At least Chrissie Whitman has been relegated to second class status and effectively defanged. But this man, with his most unsoldierly approach to foreign policy is dangerous.
The U.S. has been attacked. On its home soil. 5000 plus U.S. citizens lie dead in the wreckage of the world trade center. Anthrax is running rampant and may be part of a foreign biowarfare attempt at killing U.S. leaders and civilians.
This is not time for an olive branch, condescention to extremist wackos foreign or domestic, or half-way military measures. It is time for the U.S. government to act. NOW. By striking by air and land at the Taliban WHEREVER they are hiding. If they chose to use THEIR civilians as shields to attack or resist us, they are responsible not we.
Did we hesitate to bomb civlian centers in WW 2if it was required? Did we allow Nazis to hide from us in cathedrals or churches? Did we allow Nazi sympathizers to undermine our war effort here or abroad?
Then what is the difference here? The World Trade Center Attack was worse then Pearl Harbor. Why the kid gloves? If the Saudis don't want to support us they are just as much our enemies as the Iraqis and the Taliban, and oil is war material. We can and should just sieze their oil fields if they won't cooperate with us.
In afghanistan we call them the Taliban, don't know what their name is in Algeria.
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Yep, they are two-faced all right. But it's going to take at least another 5,000 American lives for us to realize it. Israel already knows though, and why do the Muslims need a new Palestine state when they already have Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and every other country in the middle east?
He dicked up a lot of the operation in Panama and during Desert Storm he was a Pentagon spit shine politcal guy, Schwartzkoff was the brains behind the operation.
He was picked as SOS as a political move, he had virtually no experience on the world stage or diplomacy whatsoever.
Now he often operates outside the reservation saying and doing stupid things. The Bush administration has no choice but to leave him outside the loop and hope he doesn't hurt anybody, which only makes matters worse.
At this point they can't fire him because that'll give their opponants the opportunity to sink their claws into them.
This is what you when you think of things like race and politics when you need to get a job done. I guess they felt like they needed to parade Powell around the Bush ranch during the election and are now paying the price. Affirmitive Action has no place when a President is picking a cabinet. The Bush team is learning that the hard way.
Condi Rice is light years ahead of Powell in intelligence and experience and would have made a great SOS.
The scope of the current threat to the United States is actually as broad as the entire Islamic world. Only when the fanatics have completed their desire to use portable nuclear weapons against American cities will the Washington political establishment admit to the depth of the current threat. Unfortunately, many of us will die before the control of the 'enlightened ones' over our national destiny is reduced.
Let the Israelis drive the Arabs back across the Jordan, if that their heart's delight, and encourage India to remove the nuclear threat on its western border.
We ought also raise a volunteer anti-slavery brigade to invade the northern Sudan. All those now locked up in any US prison would be offered the chance to enlist, but not allowed to re-enter the US until that date when their prison release would have come.
A nuclear sneak attack on North Korea, and the assassination of Castro would also be in order. In a couple of months the world would be a better place.