State's Racism

I know this has been pointed out before, but Powell's comments really strike me as the State Department's institutionalized racism. He can go to Iraq, trumpet the progress we're making there, see the AP write a story about the devleoping political institutions that are scaring the hell out of the Arab dictators in the region, and then go and say that these same people, these very same people, aren't capable of understanding what Arafat really is? That they can't tell the difference between a Nusabiyeh or a Sadat, and Arafat?

This is past the point of parody. Nobody believes what he's saying, not even him.