The Christian Science Monitor has a very Christian Science Monitor-ish article on rifts in the President’s foreign policy team – it has the appearance of nuance and balance, the tone of a high-minded foreign policy discussion, and the substance of a USA Today process story. They actually do one thing very well: they move past the “Bush lied” canard and recast the debate over Iraq as a debate about the merits of preemption, which is what it should be. But after that, it’s all about jockeying for positions in the next administration and how the conscience of the administration (Powell and Rice) took a bruising because of the evil neo-cons. Most curious line:
[Powell] wants it remembered that he’s the one who convinced the president to go to the UN before going to war.
I would think he
