NEW ANNE APPLEBAUM: It is the rare Foreigners that isn't about foreigners, but rather on Colin Powell's approach to them. Applebaum usually has a different take on whatever she's talking about, which is a good thing; her take on Powell is one I think only she would point out:

Unlike some other secretaries of state I can think of, he hasn't gone out of the way to court the limelight—which means that when he does speak, people listen. More to the point, it also turns out that he has a special skill: He is extremely good at speaking to foreigners. In particular, he is extremely good at explaining the more unilateralist-sounding bits of Bush's foreign policy to foreigners—those bits, in other words, that he is widely thought to oppose—in language they can understand.