Subject: Just barely: Colin L. Powell, former secretary of State, last week criticized the Bush administration by saying "the world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism." The man who tried to sell the notion of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to the world should have felt a moral imperative to speak out long ago but, apparently because of some misplaced notion of loyalty, did not. Instead, he waited for more than three years to elapse and for criticisms of the president's policies to reach a fever pitch before breaking his deafening silence and belatedly piling on. I guess all we can say Larry is: Late is better than never, but just barely.