Occasional NRO contributor Scott Belliveau e-mails, “impersonat[ing] the NY Times’ editorial board commenting on the reports that Colin Powell and Richard Armitage will leave the State Department in January 2005: ‘While hardliners in the Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz mold will celebrate it as a victory for their muscular go-it-alone approach to foreign policy and take

it as an opportunity to intensify their pursuit of a new kind of Pax

Americana, the reported departure of Colin Powell and Richard Armitage can

only be considered a defeat for those thoughtful members of the

Administration who wish the United States to craft and follow a more

pragmatic, more multilateral foreign policy . . . We can only hope that

responsible members of Congress will not shy away from their Constitutional

duty and will resolve to keep a close eye–and, if necessary, a tight

rein–on any Pentagon-inspired adventurism.’”