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Politics : The Donkey's Inn
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To: Mephisto who wrote (6023)3/17/2003 5:22:04 AM
From: Mephisto   of 15516
 


Powell will take the rap for
failed diplomacy

Matthew Engel in Washington
Monday March 17, 2003
The Guardian

guardian.co.uk

Recrimination at the failure of US diplomacy has begun in
Washington, one source close to the administration admitting
yesterday: "This has been the worst American diplomatic
debacle of our lifetime."

Administration sources suggest that this is the prelude to a
postwar bloodletting in which the secretary of state, Colin
Powell, will be the fall guy.

He will be blamed for encouraging George Bush to take the
issue to the UN, for failing to grasp the extent and power of
French and Russian opposition, failing to anticipate that the
weapons inspectors would not adhere to the US's timetable, and
for his puzzling refusal to pursue the kind of shuttle diplomacy
normal in the state department for the past 30 years.

"There's a recognition this has not been our finest diplomatic
hour," the New York Times quoted a senior official as saying on
Friday, adding that his voice was "dripping with
understatement".

In the Washington Post James Mann of the Centre for Strategic
and International Studies described the administration's foreign
policy as "a major intellectual failure" that would have
consequences long after the war is over.

This aspect of the crisis has finally given Democratic contenders
for the 2004 presidential election - most of them terrified to
attack the president directly over Iraq - an issue they can
hammer home without having their patriotism impugned
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