GQ ICON: COLIN POWELL

GQ via Men.Style.com ^ | Sept. 11, 2007 | Walter Isaacson

[TexasCajun]

“I’m a former everything,” Colin Powell jokes as he relaxes in his office in Alexandria, just across the Potomac from Washington. Indeed, he is a former national-security adviser, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and former secretary of state. But before he was a former, he was a first: the first black to serve in any of those roles. And he may also, still, be a future. He turned 70 this year and makes a solid living these days giving speeches and serving on advisory boards, but he does not rule out a return to public service.

[TexasCajun]

Lot's to comment on at the link.

[popdonnelly]

I think General Powell was infected with a strain of defeatism that infects some military men who served in Vietnam.

[SolidWood]

Powell is a traitor... regardless of his military past.
Contemptible turncoat.

[xcamel]

see:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1894321/posts
and it’s a link-only source...

[TexasCajun]

"America could not survive without immigration," he says. "Even the undocumented immigrants are contributing to our economy. That's the country my parents came to. That's the image we have to portray to the rest of the world: kind, generous, a nation of nations, touched by every nation, and we touch every nation in return. That's what people still want to believe about us. They still want to come here. We've lost a bit of the image, but we haven't lost the reality yet. And we can fix the image by reflecting a welcoming attitude -- and by not taking counsel of our fears and scaring ourselves to death that everybody coming in is going to blow up something. It ain't the case."

USA Today attributes this quote to Colin in this interview. (Drudge Report)

But I can not find the quote in the GQ article posted on Men.Style.com

[TexasCajun]

Well, dang. ..that would have saved me some time.

[Joe Boucher]

Very smart cookie, just a RINO turd.