Obama did what was politically expedient for Barack Obama. A leader interested in our nations security would have found a way to maintain a strong prescpresence. Your judgement is not something I trust because you continue to sing Powell’s praises. This is a man who stood silently by while Scooter Libby was crucified by a special prosecutor and knew the whole time that Libby was not the leaker. Dishonorable and untrustworthy would describe Colin Powell.