WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! <A HREF="http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/9/6/194508">Powell Talks Like a Clintonite at 'World Forum'</A> http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/9/6/194508 Powell Talks Like a Clintonite at 'World Forum' UPI Thursday, Sept. 7, 2000 NEW YORK - The leading candidate for secretary of state in a Republican administration did a good impression of Madeleine Albright in an address Wednesday before a shadow convention of international intellectuals, nongovernmental organizations and nonprofit groups. Speaking before the State of the World Forum, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell sounded downright Clintonian in one of his first public addresses of this campaign season to focus on foreign policy, praising international achievements of the Clinton administration. "We've seen progress. We've seen progress in Northern Ireland; we've seen progress in the Middle East," the former soldier said. "But the process will go on because we can't go backwards. There's nothing back there to go to, except agony, except defeat, except the defeat of the human spirit." Powell said former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev personally invited him to address the week-long convention. Recalling a story of a meeting with the Soviet reformer in the Pentagon, Powell said Gorbachev told him: "'General, General, I'm very, very sorry you will have to have to find a new enemy.' I said: `I don't want to. I like this enemy.'" Is This a Republican? Powell said later that one of the consequences of the end of the Cold War was that "we cannot waste our resources on weapons we don't need." This statement would appear to be at odds with Republican members of Congress who have consistently supported larger military budgets and have fought to keep weapons programs from withering away. In this campaign season Vice President Al Gore has gone out of his way to attack Gov. George W. Bush and his policy advisers as being stuck in the Cold War, a mentality that divides the world into allies and enemies of American interests. Republicans in turn have blasted the Clinton administration for allowing America's enemies to become stronger and ignoring the threat. But Powell, who has been mentioned as a possible choice for Bush's secretary of state, did not talk about the threat of rogue states such as Iraq, the country that America went to war with under his watch as America's top military officer. Nor did the former general mention other Republican foreign policy issues, such as the call for a big military, or the desire for a national missile defense program, which Bush has said he would pursue. Powell seemed to take a page from his Republican convention playbook, where he decried the buildup of prisons and relative paucity of education budgets, two views normally associated with Democrats. "The challenge before us now is that in order to provide a better life for our children, in order to free up the wealth that is out there to solve the problems of education, to solve the problems of health care, to find safe places for children, we have got to work hard to find reconciliation to all the conflicts that are out there," Powell said. Powell Gives Highest Praise to U.N. How should the world work to end conflict? One way, Powell said is "the use of the United Nations, one of the greatest organizations ever put on the face of the earth." That's a far cry from Bush foreign policy guru Condeleeza Rice's proclamation at August's Republican convention that America is not the world's police department. There are plenty of Republican internationalists, but Powell's formulation of America's obligation for American interventionism stems not from a need to protect U.S. interests, or promote stability, but rather a debt he argues this country owes to the world's children. Powell said the world's children "cry out to us, 'Give us peace, give us justice, give us what we need to be successful in the world." Powell mentioned the growth of democracies in Nigeria and South Africa, saying that "we" needed to keep moving in this direction. He talked about the growing problem of AIDS in Africa, an issue most associated with Albright, where she has come under some criticism for making this an issue of foreign policy. Powell made his speech before a clearly internationalist crowd. The State of the World Forum's board of directors boasts former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, famous primatologist Jane Goodall, Marian Wright Edelman, president of the leftist so-called Children's Defense Fund, and the left-wing, Christian-bashing media mogul who donated a fortune to the U.N., Ted Turner. Former Secretary of State James Baker also serves on that body. The forum aims to bring groups together to work towards "sustainable globalization," and recently has completed a review of the effect of globalization in the world. Sessions at the conference have covered the gambit of politically correct issues associated with improving the lot of those in less fortunate countries, from microeconomic programs to the "Literature of Women's Human Rights" and a session on spiritual healing. (C) 2000 UPI All Rights Reserved. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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