Colin Powell
Perhaps the entirety of Colin Powell’s post-Gulf War career was one giant set-up.
I say that knowing that the delivery of an “Adlai Stevenson Moment” before the UN was one. (And I sensed that coming, the ultimate meaninglessness of the reference, as it played out — in slow motion before my very eyes between the summer of 2002 and the spring of 2003.)
The whole ball of wax. Place him of Clinton’s medium list of candidates for running mate. Write a book, become the consumate “moderate voice” for an American public that loves “moderation”. Play the Eisenhower card in deciding on a party, before assigning yourself as the consummate Eisenhower Republican — “I want to return the party of Lincoln to the Spirit of Lincoln”. The choice of the Americans in 1996 who today gravitate toward Rudy Giuliana and John McCain. Ultimately, don’t run for president. Become the one respected force in a Bush II administration before the International Community…
And blow the whole wad of gum on the “Adlai Stevenson Moment”.
Later, he would fluster backward and forth… call much of the evidence “intentionally misleading”, which falls into obscurity for me to have to remind anyone who listens everytime I have the urge…
Jacques Chirac has rubbed salt into the Tony Blair’s “Reconciliation de Europe” attempts, by pointing out that Blair has gotten nothing out of his US- partnership (nothing with Israel / Palestine, and the Bush II administration ain’t moderating itself.) Thus I ask: What did Colin Powell get for his four years of soldiering service?