His military side wasn’t so spectacular either. Perfumed prince, promoted in the 70s and 80s because he was black, in Schwartkopfs way mostly in Desert Storm.
Read his autobiography.
Ah yes, Col Hackworth wasn’t it?
I can’t remember the details without Googling, but Christopher Hitchens wrote about some skullduggery of Powell’s having to do with trying to cover up the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
Yeah and unfortunately he was appointed to government by REAGAN