(New York Times) - Almost from the beginning, Secretary of State Powell has found himself at odds with many of his more hard-line colleagues and the president himself. Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Richard Holbrooke views the situation this way: "These are deep, philosophical differences between two very different views of America in the world. One is a traditional conservative view; the other is a radical break with 55 years of a bipartisan tradition that sought international agreements and regimes of benefit to us."
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