It's been a tough ride for you. I know that. I'm sorry it didn't work out as Secretary of State. Look on the bright side: you got your son a cool job involving intense scrutiny of Janet Jackson's boobs. "That's a great Dad, said FCC chairman Michael Powell."
So, now what? Sabbah has an idea. Perhaps you would like to be Secretary of State Farm ? State Department or State Farm -- it's basically the same job: selling policies made by the real powers that be, and doing whatever it takes to make the boss look good. Go for it -- you'll do great!
He's gone. Colin Powell's finally gone, and under the most cowardly of circumstances, just slipping out the back door quietly to no good purpose, only days after the apparently successful election campaign of his insane belligerence man.
That same cowardice, in the line of his duty as Secretary of State, is responsible for the deaths of hundred of thousands Arab. Earlier, Powell is well known in his very problematic career in the Vietnam war, and in the Iran-Contra affair (coordinating the sale of missiles to Iran).
Powell's legacy will, and not incidentally, include his argument that the U.S. armed services couldn't (shouldn't?) be integrated - for homosexuals, that is. I'm sure however that he would have made the usual exception for times of war like the present, when they are needed for cannon fodder.
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