All Right, I'll Say Something Nice About Colin Powell

This seems like a good idea (although sooner would have been better):

Although no one reported it, Colin Powell made a decision last week that could formally reverse the State Department's earlier preoccupation with Cold War arms control into an intensified and much-needed battle against the spread of strategic arms to the world's Irans and North Koreas. In an internal State Department memo, Powell agreed with the key recommendation of his inspector general to merge what was once State's crown jewel — its Bureau of Arms Control — with the department's Bureau of Nonproliferation.


This may seem like inside baseball but it's not. Indeed, the question now is whether our government will simply combine two large organizations to do pretty much what they were doing before to restrain weapons of mass destruction or take on a much more serious effort to promote nonproliferation. For the moment, the jury is still out.

Henry Solkolski at NRO has more.