Powell, strip away the phoney bravado and you get is really just a pandering-to-the-media/moderates wuss.
More than that, he is an ass.
Just another military bureaucrat who was in the right place at the right time.
Now showing his loyalty and lack of judgement.
When hundred of our Marines died after bombing in Lebanon, our planes on the Mediterranean carries were ready for takeoff: we knew the terrorist camps in the Bekaa Valley. It was Power who convinced Reagan to back off without firing a shot. All this only emboldened the terrorists -- to the point of attacking us on our soil.