Colin Powell to step down as Sec'y of State

[Guest INXS]

That's what I mean - the color.

 

Mike - I agree the first one does seem racist - I posted my post before I had seen your additional cartoons - I was referring to the initial cartoon of the parrot.

 

I don't feel that any racism is justified Mike, no matter who it is directed against.

 

I don't like Condi but it's not because she's black same as I don't like Bush and it's not because he's white.

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

I liked this article about Rice's daunting task from the Wall St. Journal:

 

As Mr. Powell's successor, Condoleezza Rice should begin by casting aside the ungainly acronym GWOT, and the more obscure term for which it stands: the Global War on Terror, a term that makes as much sense as if Americans had responded to Pearl Harbor by declaring a global war on dive bombers. She must tackle head-on the question of what the threat from Salafist terrorism is, whence it came, and how it can be combated. She must tell the world and the peoples of the Middle East what the U.S. can hope to achieve in Iraq, now that the mirage of a swift creation of a liberal state is gone. She must reinvent our public diplomacy, articulating abroad the values for which the U.S. stands, using not the techniques of Madison Avenue executives (one of the failures of the first part of the administration) but speech rooted in America's history and politics. She needs to explain how the administration will manage its new strategic partnerships, such as that with India, and its uneasy relationship with the rising power of China. She must describe what Americans expect international institutions to be able to do, and what we understand they cannot. She should, in other words, make an argument about what the world is, the extent to which we think we can shape it, and the extent to which we will be shaped by it.