The State Department

Charles Johnson is absolutely right in this post.

When Jeanne Kirkpatrick served the last truly conservative American President as Representative to the United Nations, she fought a courageous fight in the UN (and sometimes in the government, against higher-ups at the State Department) against such nonsense. The U.S. no longer seems willing to make the effort. I had expected better from John Negroponte.

And Colin Powell is useless as Secretary of State in this regard. This is the sort of squishy diplomacy I've come to expect from a man with no apparent guiding political philosophy or principles of statecraft. But hey, at least he's emphatically for condom use. THAT is what I want to hear from MY Secretary of State when the Middle East is falling apart. (No, really -- I don't mean that sarcastically. He makes more sense on that issue than anything that flies out of his piehole having to do with the Middle East).

[Posted at 14:07 CST on 03/30/02] [Link]