Larissa
22nd March 2003, 12:17
Why Colin Powell Should Go
By BILL KELLER
(The New York Times)
he famous hardheaded definition of war is "the continuation of politics by other means." In the real world, though, war is the failure of politics. This war — undertaken at such cost to America's own interests — is specifically a failure of Colin Powell's politics.
Even if you believe that this war is justified, the route to it has been an ugly display of American opportunism and bullying, dissembling and dissonance. The administration has neglected other lethal crises around the world, alienated the allies we need for almost everything else on our agenda and abandoned friends working for the kind of values we profess to be exporting.
Full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/22/opinion/....html?tntemail1 (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/22/opinion/22KELL.html?tntemail1)
By BILL KELLER
(The New York Times)
he famous hardheaded definition of war is "the continuation of politics by other means." In the real world, though, war is the failure of politics. This war — undertaken at such cost to America's own interests — is specifically a failure of Colin Powell's politics.
Even if you believe that this war is justified, the route to it has been an ugly display of American opportunism and bullying, dissembling and dissonance. The administration has neglected other lethal crises around the world, alienated the allies we need for almost everything else on our agenda and abandoned friends working for the kind of values we profess to be exporting.
Full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/22/opinion/....html?tntemail1 (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/22/opinion/22KELL.html?tntemail1)