I think it is becoming more and more obvious that Powell is a liberal in conservative clothes.
You've got to remember that Powell is supposed to be the "moderate" in the good cop/bad cop relationship he has with Bush. It's the same scam that Kissinger and Nixon ran. Henry would always tell the Russians or the Eurotrash that RN was two seconds away from pushing the Button. It worked fairly well.
This is the same deal. The Eurotrash consider Bush to be an ignorant cowboy. So fine. So Powell becomes the voice of sweet reason that they can "deal with". I strongly suspect that Powell agrees with the grand strategy of the administration. He knows that al-Qaeda and its confederates must be vaporized before they get their hands on a bomb. He just says it differently. That way Bush gets to be the ignorant, headstrong cowboy who is held back by a "reasonable" Powell. Makes Rumsfeld's job easier, as well as Rice's.
Oh, and this "feed the world" crap is just that, crap. More magical bullsh*t fed to the Eurotrash opinion leaders to make them feel that "one of them" is holding Bush back from using nuclear weapons.
Be Seeing You,
Chris