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...previous works I’d done, I had something of a pretty good bridgehead in that world. I hadn’t written about it in a long time, but in an odd way there were people I knew going back any number of years. I had known Colin Powell in previous incarnations, and I had known Tony Lake and Dick Holbrooke when they were young foreign service officers...
Much of the book deals with the internal conflicts of the American bureaucratic elite. The underlying struggle was between those pushing wholeheartedly for direct involvement in the Balkans and other international hot spots and those, like Colin Powell, who agree to send troops into a foreign conflict only if there are clear objectives and a clear exit strategy. The question of the U.S.’s responsibility as a world power is one that the country has been wrestling with for much of the past century, and Halberstam pointedly places it in the context of the last decade...
...tough - and perhaps that's why Wall Street's predisposition this week has been to inch up instead of down while it waits for war. But any investor confident enough to buy into this week's tentative surge may want to remember that if Don Rumsfeld and Colin Powell and George W. Bush were as confident, we'd have seen some explosions in Afghanistan...
...doubted him, and who voted against him, that he is indeed a leader.” In a Sept. 25 Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, Posner stressed that Bush “has converted many of us to admirers, and he deserves our complete support. The entire administration, from Colin Powell to Donald Rumsfeld to Dick Cheney, inspires more confidence as we embark on this uncertain war than we likely would have had in any Gore administration...
...date, very little evidence has been made public, for obvious security reasons, so any discussion has been necessarily relegated to the realm of speculation. We do know that this is not a "normal" evidentiary search: Colin Powell has been candid in saying that the evidence is not of the type that would stand up in an American court...