Rice Is Top Candidate to Replace Powell -Sources
Three years ago, this news--that a fine man with an understanding of the politics in the world's most troubled region was being replaced as America's top diplomat by a narcissistic woman whose expertise is a relic of the Cold War--would have stirred in me a passionate anger as well as a deep and abiding fear that an administration once merely inept was about to run the ship of state aground. Now that the ship is sitting on a lonely island, isolated from any reality as understood by the rest of the world, I find myself surprisingly resigned to the news that Colin Powell, in whom I once placed my faith that the Bush Administration would not recklessly invade Iraq, only to see that faith scorned and spurned, is leaving his post and that Condi Rice is likely taking over. Can Wolfowitz as (non-Senate-confirmed) National Security Adviser be far off? [UPDATE: Well, it's going to be Hadley as NSA, not Wolfie. So it's the liar about the uranium and friend of Dick Cheney rather than the rabid neocon and friend of Dick Cheney. Six of one...]
Oh well. At least Barry Bonds is still the National League MVP.
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