[Bob]

Sorry to have to make this comment, but it's the GWB Internationalist State Deprtment now, and I don't think it's any better.

I think that Saddam and the Taliban may differ slightly with your assessment of the situation.

[SJackson]

You're suggesting Iraq was a State Dept iniative? Afghanistan, maybe, partly.

It's the neocon Executive branch that devised our post 9/11 strategy, not the State Dept.

Yes, Colin Powell is better than Maddy, but the underlings are the same.

For State, Term 2, we need