Soon-to-be former secretary of state Colin Powell's over-enthusiastic advocacy at home left him little time to do advocacy for the United States abroad.

Colin Powell's words on Iran were systematically distorted by Reuters, which unnerved the freedom fighters in Iran and gave a moment of comfort to the tyrants in Tehran.

Argentina's bank regulatory system now is widely regarded as one of the two or three most successful among emerging market economies.

The Generals, Bush at War is essentially an edited transcript of Colin Powell leaks, all of them calculated to protect himself against blame if things go wrong.

Powellseems to havesold himself on a false vision of the Middle East, and this false vision will undermine any effort to craft a sensible Middle East strategy.

My secretary raced into my office to say that the Pentagon was on fire. I went to a window and saw a great cloud of smoke and fire rising just across the Potomac River from the iconic building's western side. We were under attack. We had no clue what was coming next.

Powell may be popular in large part because of his association with the military, the most highly regarded institution in American life.

Earlier today, I passed along the exciting news that senior State Department official Wendy Sherman had once again helped deliver the North Koreans to the negotiating table, a reprise of her Nork work of the Clinton years.  And indeed, the deal done looks a lot like the deal Mrs Sherman did back then, except….