Colin Powell is a softy and a wimp. It's my understanding that he is 100% responsible for the US not going after Saddam. From what I've heard so far it sounds like he is also pushing hard for moderates of the Taliban to be in final form of government in Afganistan and was hoping that the moderates would over throw the hard lines and then rule the country.
I'm not buying any of the stories coming from Washington that the US doesn't have any clues as to where the anthrax came from. If in 3 weeks the US can't determine something like the origin of an anthrax strain, then we have absolutely no intelligence agencies at all. My theory is that we know darn well where it originated from. Maybe not how it got in the US or who it putting it in the mail, but where it originated from. And that we are waiting until a better time before bombing the crap out of the country.
Ask yourself this, why is the US being so quite and calm about a weapon of mass destruction being released upon US civilians and government officials? Not one government official has referred to it in that way, yet. Watch, if our war efforts start to go south, the public support starts to drop, or for some political reason we have to stop bombing Afganistan, the US will amazinging determine the source of anthrax, call it a weapon of mass destruction, get the world agitated about terrorism again, and then go after the country that produced it.