Colin Powell
Fomer SecState Colin Powell, four stars, is smart, brave, savvy and gentle and nice. He is of Jamaican heritage. He loves his family deeply, (He also speaks some Yiddish.) He formed some apparently wonderful charities.
I would see him at Phil Merril's annual party, and at Richard Perle's parties.
For a while he was my favorite for President in 2000.
But he was in the service of the President of the United States (POTUS) who was elected by a majority of the electoral college in 2000.
POTUS is the Commander-in-Chief, eleced to make the tough calls.
If the Sec/State he didn't like what was going on he should have up and left, and when he saw that he could not make chnge from within. Period. Full stop.
The impliications of such non-action is ghastly.
Ben
posted by Ben Wattenberg at 1:06 AM
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Fomer SecState Colin Powell, four stars, is smart, brave, savvy and gentle and nice.
Maybe so. But he wasn't smart enough to avoid making a fool of himself in front of the UN, thereby putting the kibosh on any future political ambitions.
In that vein, I can unhesitatingly say this: he was better than Rice. Which, unfortunately, isn't saying much.
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