Rove Meddling
Please, Karl Rove, Never Let This Happen Again
I was surprised to see this relatively sympathetic profile of Paul Wolfowitz in the New York Times, given that paper's perspective on the world.
What was disturbing was the report that Karl Rove essentially dispatched Wolfowitz to go and defend the muddled diplomatic mess created by Colin Powell. For an administration that likes to remind us constantly just how different it is from Bill Clinton and Dick Morris, it's disturbing that a senior White House aide is giving orders to the #2 man at the Department of Defense while a war is being fought.
It's even more disturbing that Karl Rove is disrupting the war effort by meddling with the schedules of important men when his own time would be much better spent ensuring that his President never again conducts a photo op in which he is wielding an ax in the snow.
[Posted at 23:42 CST on 04/23/02] [Link]
