"Powell Flies In the Face Of Tradition: Secretary Is Least Traveled In Years of State Records," by Glenn Kessler, Washington Post 14 July, p. A1.

Powell travels less than any secretary of state of the last three decades. Needs to stay in Washington so he can influence policy debates more, apparently.

And that only makes his complete failure in the interagency process all the more glaring. No successes to show internationally and none to show interagency.

This guy will go down as one of the most missing-in-action secretaries of state we ever had. He'll be the Bill Cohen of SECSTATE's.

Don't know who Bill Cohen was? That's the point.