“Haven’t we learned anything about allowing politicians to control a war rather than generals? I think that happened before.”
Hmm. I wonder if Colin Powell has any thoughts on that
Colin Powell actually has few strategic skills. His work in in planning and preparing for Desert Storm was laughable, and he had to be sidelined, and a group of competent colonels called in .
He was also the principal author of the bad advice to Bush to not pursue the retreating Iraqis and leave Saddam in place. IMNSHO, were it not for affirmative action, he would have become, in all likelihood, a perhaps adequate battalion commander at some non-combat base. Napoleon he ain't. During Desert Storm, they tried saving his face by comparing him to McClellan. But McClellan was an organizational genius, which Powell ain't, either.
Despite his ringing endorsement of Obama, he has been left out of the administration, and left in the RINO wing of the GOP, which militarily speaking, is probably a good thing. He probably hasn't abandoned dreams of a place on the GOP national ticket in '12 .... ROTFLMAO