Thursday, August 26, 2004

Colin Powell

On both sides of the war, all the deaths, maimed humans, ruined families, and the continuous violence might not have been if one man had taken a stand. I’ll think of this with others during the R.N.C. Like many I knew that Colin Powell had within his reach a courage waiting to be tapped to tip that scale of reason for going into Iraq. Instead there was a 180% turn around from the self proclaimed “Reluctant Warrior”.

That political courage John Kennedy mentioned in his book, “Profiles In Courage” escaped Colin Powell. “I have been interested in problems of political courage in the face of constituent pressures and the light on those problems by the lives of past statesmen”, John F. Kennedy.

If Mr. Powell had resigned rather than have faced the U.N with dubious evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, I don’t believe what many see as a fraud on the American public, would have held together. I believe the media would not have been as mute, and would have vigorously questioned the wisdom of the pre-emptive strike.

Some of us feel that, had Mr. Powell taken the resign course of action, he would have generated more love in the world than hatred. In my opinion, that would have been the type of courage exemplified in “Profiles Of Courage”. It’s that type of courage that brings tears to all eyes that witnessed it.

Of course many would have felt betrayed and probably would have branded Mr. Powell as a coward. I suspect those are the ones that have a problem with the word sensitive.

It seems there is almost a split division in this country concerning whether it was right or wrong to invade Iraq. No one can ignore the fact that the war in Iraq is draining an enormous amount of resources and blood. There are those that say the Iraq war is connected with 9/11. There are those that say there is no proof. This same argument existed before the war when Colin Powell gave his presentation to the U.N.

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