A few thoughts on overlooked aspects of the late secretary’s career. Plus, what I got wrong.
Colin Powell
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James Baker Stood For Multilateralism and Order. So Why Is He Voting For Donald Trump?
A new biography of the wise man also exposes the problem with Republicans who back Trump for taxes and judges.
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Colin Powell Is Right: Our Foreign Policy Is in Shambles
That’s a major problem for a party that has always identified itself as strong on defense.
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Rocky Road: Enough Already of the Dwayne Johnson Presidential Talk
I felt a little embarrassed for Jonathan Allen of NBC News last week when, in a piece about potential challengers to Donald Trump in 2020, he wrote the following: Former Vice President Joe Biden is going to look a lot like a presidential candidate this year. He plans to raise money for Senate Democratic incumbents, […]
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The Cost of One’s Soul
Sometimes people have to be explicitly told they’re not wanted around–and even then, they still don’t seem to get it. Yes, there was plenty of morbid humor to be derived this week from the travails of now-former White House staffer and one-time reality-TV star Omarosa Manigault, ousted from what appeared to be a make-work position […]
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Obama-Trump Voters Need to Apologize to Puerto Rico
Remember Colin Powell’s “Pottery Barn doctrine” with regard to the Iraq War–”You break it, you own it”? That same rule should apply to the consequences of bad voting decisions. Those who voted for Donald Trump last November–especially the folks who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, only to take leave of their senses […]
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Did Someone Ask Colin Powell’s Opinion?
“I’m amazed that people still care what Powell thinks and have any respect for him after he went to the United Nations and delivered the most dishonest and discredited case in the history of that organization.”
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America Coming Together
In the name of stopping Donald Trump, will Mitt Romney formally endorse Hillary Clinton? The prospect of a Romney endorsement of the Democratic nominee should not be considered far-fetched. The 2012 Republican nominee surely must know that it might not be sufficient for him to denounce the Donald; if he seriously wants to convince those […]
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Brain-Free Zones
Will the 2016 Republican National Convention set a new record for the largest collection of losers in one arena? This year’s catastrophe in Cleveland will not be uniquely disastrous, only because the quadrennial event has always been a hot mess. Can you think of one GOP convention in recent history that didn’t display the worst […]
