September 04, 2002
WAR: Powell vs. Mugabe
Colin Powell, always the good soldier, endured the type of heckling that passes for debate among the flat-earthers in Johannesburg. For all of Powell's . . . well, diplomacy, it was refreshing to see him joining the lonely voice of the New Zealanders in standing up to evil in the person of Robert Mugabe. And kudos to Dave Kopel of the National Review Online, who raised the alarm back in March (well before it hit the radar screen of the Secretary of State and CNN that Zimbabwe was on the path to genocide.