The Last Shred of Colin Powell’s Relevance Is Gone, Thank God
by Scott McKay
The Last Shred of Colin Powell’s Relevance Is Gone, Thank God
The “Pottery Barn” foreign policy doctrine is over.
No, this column is not asserting that Colin Powell, who stands as one of the worst mistakes of the Bush Republican era, has any relevance. Quite the contrary, but what I will argue here is that one of the chief benefits of President Trump’s successful airstrikes, which have done grievous damage to the Iranian nuclear program, if not particularly laying waste to the Iranian regime itself, is to make clear that Powell can be discarded once and for all.
Powell was a terrible Secretary of State for many reasons. The most flagrant of those being that he utterly, and consequentially, failed when assigned a critical task during George W. Bush’s signature presidential action, that being the invasion and conquest of Iraq in the years following the 9/11 attacks.
