COLIN WHINES, HERSH AND WOODWARD DEPRESS

Shorter Colin Powell on Press the Meat: "We're criticized if we choose a military solution and criticized if we pick a diplomatic solution" when asked by Tim Russert about Iran and North Korea. "We're focusing intently on both problems." There's no U.S. president, including a president Kerry, who wouldn't respond to an act of terrorism. What TACTICS he'd use, he said, we don't know. We're the only nation that's called it genocide in Sudan. Aren't we special? Our effort is to HELP the Sudanese government get on the peace track and end these many years of war and help the Sudanese people have a better life.

Shorter Sy Hersh and Bob Woodward: Kerry can't say what he'd do in Iraq because nobody knows what to do in Iraq -- we're well and truly screwed.