GENERAL, WE HARDLY KNEW YE:

Powell challenges the OAS (NANCY SAN MARTIN, 6/08/04, Miami Herald)

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Monday called on the Organization of American States to continue enforcing democratic principles in the Western Hemisphere and be ready to help when its member nations' ``democracies suffer setbacks.''

Powell also announced that Fort Lauderdale will host the next year's meeting of the OAS general assembly, which brings together the foreign ministers from its 34 active member nations. Cuba's membership was suspended in 1962.

Powell's comments at this year's general assembly came as member nations struggled with a proposed resolution that raises questions about the resignation of former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the legitimacy of the interim government that succeeded him.

This is terribly confusing--isn't Colin Powell the hard-bitten realist of the bunch and not just another messianic democrat?

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 8, 2004 9:09 AM